Using inertial fusion implosions to measure the fusion cross section at nucleosynthesis-relevant energies
Abstract
Light nuclei were created during big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). Standard BBN theory, using rates inferred from accelerator-beam data, cannot explain high levels of 6 Li in low-metallicity stars. Using high-energy-density plasmas we measure the T ( 3 He , γ ) 6 Li reaction rate, a candidate for anomalously high 6 Li production; we find that the rate is too low to explain the observations, and different than values used in common BBN models. This is the first data directly relevant to BBN, and also the first use of laboratory plasmas, at comparable conditions to astrophysical systems, to address a problem in nuclear astrophysics.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- AWE plc, Reading (United Kingdom)
- Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)
- Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
- Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- LLNL; LLE; FSC; NLUF; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1341857
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1261687; OSTI ID: 1266027; OSTI ID: 1266028; OSTI ID: 1266029; OSTI ID: 1374516
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-15-29245; LLNL-JRNL-734488
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO; TRN: US1701791
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396; NA0001857; FC52-08NA28752; FG02-88ER40387; NA0001837; B597367; 20150717PRD2; 415935- G; NA0002035; NA0002726; NA0002949; AC52-07NA27344
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 117; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Citation Formats
Zylstra, Alex B., Herrmann, Hans W., Johnson, M. Gatu, Kim, Yong Ho, Frenje, J. A., Hale, Gerald M., Li, C. K., Rubery, M., Paris, Mark W., Bacher, A., Brune, C. R., Forrest, C., Glebov, V. Yu., Janezic, R., McNabb, D., Nikroo, A., Pino, J., Sangster, T. C., Seguin, F. H., Seka, W., Sio, H., Stoeckl, C., and Petrasso, R. D. Using inertial fusion implosions to measure the T+He3 fusion cross section at nucleosynthesis-relevant energies. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.035002.
Zylstra, Alex B., Herrmann, Hans W., Johnson, M. Gatu, Kim, Yong Ho, Frenje, J. A., Hale, Gerald M., Li, C. K., Rubery, M., Paris, Mark W., Bacher, A., Brune, C. R., Forrest, C., Glebov, V. Yu., Janezic, R., McNabb, D., Nikroo, A., Pino, J., Sangster, T. C., Seguin, F. H., Seka, W., Sio, H., Stoeckl, C., & Petrasso, R. D. Using inertial fusion implosions to measure the T+He3 fusion cross section at nucleosynthesis-relevant energies. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.035002
Zylstra, Alex B., Herrmann, Hans W., Johnson, M. Gatu, Kim, Yong Ho, Frenje, J. A., Hale, Gerald M., Li, C. K., Rubery, M., Paris, Mark W., Bacher, A., Brune, C. R., Forrest, C., Glebov, V. Yu., Janezic, R., McNabb, D., Nikroo, A., Pino, J., Sangster, T. C., Seguin, F. H., Seka, W., Sio, H., Stoeckl, C., and Petrasso, R. D. Mon .
"Using inertial fusion implosions to measure the T+He3 fusion cross section at nucleosynthesis-relevant energies". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.035002. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1341857.
@article{osti_1341857,
title = {Using inertial fusion implosions to measure the T+He3 fusion cross section at nucleosynthesis-relevant energies},
author = {Zylstra, Alex B. and Herrmann, Hans W. and Johnson, M. Gatu and Kim, Yong Ho and Frenje, J. A. and Hale, Gerald M. and Li, C. K. and Rubery, M. and Paris, Mark W. and Bacher, A. and Brune, C. R. and Forrest, C. and Glebov, V. Yu. and Janezic, R. and McNabb, D. and Nikroo, A. and Pino, J. and Sangster, T. C. and Seguin, F. H. and Seka, W. and Sio, H. and Stoeckl, C. and Petrasso, R. D.},
abstractNote = {Light nuclei were created during big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). Standard BBN theory, using rates inferred from accelerator-beam data, cannot explain high levels of 6 Li in low-metallicity stars. Using high-energy-density plasmas we measure the T ( 3 He , γ ) 6 Li reaction rate, a candidate for anomalously high 6 Li production; we find that the rate is too low to explain the observations, and different than values used in common BBN models. This is the first data directly relevant to BBN, and also the first use of laboratory plasmas, at comparable conditions to astrophysical systems, to address a problem in nuclear astrophysics.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.035002},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 3,
volume = 117,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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