Impact of O16(γ,α)C12 measurements on the C12(α,γ)O16 astrophysical reaction rate

Holt, R. J.; Filippone, Brad W.; Pieper, Steven C.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.99.055802

Title: Impact of ${}^{16}O (γ, α) {}^{12}C$ measurements on the ${}^{12}C (α, γ) {}^{16}O$ astrophysical reaction rate

Journal Article · Thu May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physical Review C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.99.055802· OSTI ID:1529375

Holt, R. J. ^[1]; Filippone, Brad W. ^[2]; Pieper, Steven C. ^[3]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)

The ${}^{12}C (α, γ) {}^{16}O$ reaction, an essentialt component of stellar helium burning, plays a key role in nuclear astrophysics. It has direct impact on the evolution and final state of massive stars, while also influencing the elemental abundances resulting from nucleosynthesis in such stars. Providing a reliable estimate for the energy dependence of this reaction at stellar helium burning temperatures has been a major goal for the field. In this work, we study the role of potential new measurements of the inverse reaction, ${}^{16}O (γ, α) {}^{12}C$ , in reducing the overall uncertainty. A multilevel R-matrix analysis is used to make extrapolations of the astrophysical S factor for this reaction to the stellar energy of 300 keV. The statistical precision of the S-factor extrapolation is determined by performing multiple fits to existing E1 and E2 ground-state capture data, including the impact of possible future measurements of the ${}^{16}O (γ, α) {}^{12}C$ reaction. Specifically, we consider a proposed Jefferson Laboratory (JLab) experiment that will make use of a high-intensity low-energy bremsstrahlung beam that impinges on an oxygen-rich single-fluid bubble chamber in order to measure the total cross section for the inverse reaction. The importance of low-energy data as well as high-precision data is investigated.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1529375

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1510363

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Vol. 99, Issue 5; ISSN 2469-9985

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