Reaction rate for carbon burning in massive stars
Abstract
Carbon burning is a critical phase for nucleosynthesis in massive stars. The conditions for igniting this burning stage, and the subsequent isotope composition of the resulting ashes, depend strongly on the reaction rate for 12C+12C fusion at very low energies. Results for the cross sections for this reaction are influenced by various backgrounds encountered in measurements at such energies. In this paper, we report on a new measurement of 12C+12C fusion cross sections where these backgrounds have been minimized. It is found that the astrophysical S factor exhibits a maximum around Ecm=3.5–4.0 MeV, which leads to a reduction of the previously predicted astrophysical reaction rate.
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division; Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division; Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division; Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Physics Division; Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Univ. de Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France)
- Univ. de Strasbourg, Strasbourg (France); Univ. of Strasbourg Inst. for Advanced Study (USIAS), Strasbourg (France)
- Univ. of York, Heslington, York (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics
- Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay (France)
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
- Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Zhuhai, (China). Sino-French Inst. of Nuclear Engineering and Technology
- Inst. of Modern Physics, Lanzhou (China)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States); Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1425275
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1416458; OSTI ID: 1658909; OSTI ID: 1658933
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; FG02-96ER40978; FG02-97ER41041; FG02-97ER41033
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 97; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
Jiang, C. L., Santiago-Gonzalez, D., Almaraz-Calderon, S., Rehm, K. E., Back, B. B., Auranen, K., Avila, M. L., Ayangeakaa, A. D., Bottoni, S., Carpenter, M. P., Dickerson, C., DiGiovine, B., Greene, J. P., Hoffman, C. R., Janssens, R. V. F., Kay, B. P., Kuvin, S. A., Lauritsen, T., Pardo, R. C., Sethi, J., Seweryniak, D., Talwar, R., Ugalde, C., Zhu, S., Bourgin, D., Courtin, S., Haas, F., Heine, M., Fruet, G., Montanari, D., Jenkins, D. G., Morris, L., Lefebvre-Schuhl, A., Alcorta, M., Fang, X., Tang, X. D., Bucher, B., Deibel, C. M., and Marley, S. T. Reaction rate for carbon burning in massive stars. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.012801.
Jiang, C. L., Santiago-Gonzalez, D., Almaraz-Calderon, S., Rehm, K. E., Back, B. B., Auranen, K., Avila, M. L., Ayangeakaa, A. D., Bottoni, S., Carpenter, M. P., Dickerson, C., DiGiovine, B., Greene, J. P., Hoffman, C. R., Janssens, R. V. F., Kay, B. P., Kuvin, S. A., Lauritsen, T., Pardo, R. C., Sethi, J., Seweryniak, D., Talwar, R., Ugalde, C., Zhu, S., Bourgin, D., Courtin, S., Haas, F., Heine, M., Fruet, G., Montanari, D., Jenkins, D. G., Morris, L., Lefebvre-Schuhl, A., Alcorta, M., Fang, X., Tang, X. D., Bucher, B., Deibel, C. M., & Marley, S. T. Reaction rate for carbon burning in massive stars. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.012801
Jiang, C. L., Santiago-Gonzalez, D., Almaraz-Calderon, S., Rehm, K. E., Back, B. B., Auranen, K., Avila, M. L., Ayangeakaa, A. D., Bottoni, S., Carpenter, M. P., Dickerson, C., DiGiovine, B., Greene, J. P., Hoffman, C. R., Janssens, R. V. F., Kay, B. P., Kuvin, S. A., Lauritsen, T., Pardo, R. C., Sethi, J., Seweryniak, D., Talwar, R., Ugalde, C., Zhu, S., Bourgin, D., Courtin, S., Haas, F., Heine, M., Fruet, G., Montanari, D., Jenkins, D. G., Morris, L., Lefebvre-Schuhl, A., Alcorta, M., Fang, X., Tang, X. D., Bucher, B., Deibel, C. M., and Marley, S. T. 2018.
"Reaction rate for carbon burning in massive stars". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.012801. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1425275.
@article{osti_1425275,
title = {Reaction rate for carbon burning in massive stars},
author = {Jiang, C. L. and Santiago-Gonzalez, D. and Almaraz-Calderon, S. and Rehm, K. E. and Back, B. B. and Auranen, K. and Avila, M. L. and Ayangeakaa, A. D. and Bottoni, S. and Carpenter, M. P. and Dickerson, C. and DiGiovine, B. and Greene, J. P. and Hoffman, C. R. and Janssens, R. V. F. and Kay, B. P. and Kuvin, S. A. and Lauritsen, T. and Pardo, R. C. and Sethi, J. and Seweryniak, D. and Talwar, R. and Ugalde, C. and Zhu, S. and Bourgin, D. and Courtin, S. and Haas, F. and Heine, M. and Fruet, G. and Montanari, D. and Jenkins, D. G. and Morris, L. and Lefebvre-Schuhl, A. and Alcorta, M. and Fang, X. and Tang, X. D. and Bucher, B. and Deibel, C. M. and Marley, S. T.},
abstractNote = {Carbon burning is a critical phase for nucleosynthesis in massive stars. The conditions for igniting this burning stage, and the subsequent isotope composition of the resulting ashes, depend strongly on the reaction rate for 12C+12C fusion at very low energies. Results for the cross sections for this reaction are influenced by various backgrounds encountered in measurements at such energies. In this paper, we report on a new measurement of 12C+12C fusion cross sections where these backgrounds have been minimized. It is found that the astrophysical S factor exhibits a maximum around Ecm=3.5–4.0 MeV, which leads to a reduction of the previously predicted astrophysical reaction rate.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.97.012801},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1425275},
journal = {Physical Review C},
issn = {2469-9985},
number = 1,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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