Reaction rate for carbon burning in massive stars

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.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.97.012801

Title: Reaction rate for carbon burning in massive stars

Journal Article · Wed Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.97.012801· OSTI ID:1425275

Jiang, C. L. ^[1]; Santiago-Gonzalez, D. ^[2]; Almaraz-Calderon, S. ^[3]; Rehm, K. E. ^[1]; Back, B. B. ^[1]; Auranen, K. ^[1]; Avila, M. L. ^[1]; Ayangeakaa, A. D. ^[1]; Bottoni, S. ^[1]; Carpenter, M. P. ^[1]; Dickerson, C. ^[1]; DiGiovine, B. ^[1]; Greene, J. P. ^[1]; Hoffman, C. R. ^[1]; Janssens, R. V. F. ^[1]; Kay, B. P. ^[1]; Kuvin, S. A. ^[4]; Lauritsen, T. ^[1]; Pardo, R. C. ^[1]; Sethi, J. ^[5] more »

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

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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Research Organization:: 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 Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; FG02-96ER40978; FG02-97ER41041; FG02-97ER41033

OSTI ID:: 1425275

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1416458; OSTI ID: 1658909; OSTI ID: 1658933

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Vol. 97, Issue 1; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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