Reaction Rates for H-burning in Stars from Experiments with Radioactive Nuclear Beams
- Cyclotron Institute, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843-3366 (United States)
In this lecture some of the indirect methods for nuclear astrophysics that can be applied to extract reaction rates for H-burning in stars are treated. Instead of reviewing all methods, I chose for exemplification four different experiments of our Texas A and M group, each involving a different method, but all related to the study of the proton rich nucleus {sup 23}Al. They involve the use of radioactive nuclear beams. I will describe the use of one-nucleon transfer reactions (the ANC method), breakup reactions at intermediate energies, {beta}-decay and {beta}-delayed proton-decay to extract nuclear structure information that is then used for nuclear astrophysics. I will show the specificities of each method, talk about their complementarities and redundancies.
- OSTI ID:
- 21052859
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 972, Issue 1; Conference: Carpathian summer school of physics 2007 on exotic nuclei and nuclear/particle astrophysics (II), Sinaia (Romania), 21-31 Aug 2007; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2870286; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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