1. Thermonuclear reactionS30(p,γ)Cl31studied via Coulomb breakup ofCl31
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Ralf Plag, J. Benlliure, O. Lepyoshkina, T. Le Bleis, A. Klimkiewicz, G. Ickert, A. Kelic-Heil, Thomas Nilsson, F. Wamers, H. Simon, Michael Heil, V. Panin, Kristian Larsson, K. Sümmerer, Thomas Aumann, Y. Aksyutina, O. Ershova, Björn Jonson, J. V. Kratz, Roy Crawford Lemmon, J. Taylor, C. Wimmer, S. Schwertel, R. Krücken, J. Marganiec, Ushasi Datta Pramanik, Hans Geissel, D. Rossi, K. Boretzky, Rene Reifarth, B. Streicher, R. Kulessa, S. B. Novo, K. Mahata, Marielle Chartier, Roman Gernhäuser, W. Prokopowicz, Håkan T Johansson, J. R. Vignote, Christoph Langer, D. Cortina, P. Z. Wu, and V. Ricciardi
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Physics ,Nuclear physics ,Reaction rate ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Thermonuclear fusion ,Proton ,Nucleosynthesis ,Nuclear structure ,Coulomb excitation ,Atomic physics ,rp-process ,Excitation - Abstract
Coulomb breakup at high energy in inverse kinematics of proton-rich Cl-31 was used to constrain the thermonuclear S-30(p,gamma)Cl-31 capture reaction rate under typical Type I x-ray burst conditions. This reaction is a bottleneck during rapid proton-capture nucleosynthesis (rp process), where its rate depends predominantly on the nuclear structure of Cl-31. Two low-lying states just above the proton-separation threshold of S-p = 296( 50) keV in Cl-31 have been identified experimentally using the (RB)-B-3-LAND setup at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH. Both states are considered to play a key role in the thermonuclear S-30( p,gamma)Cl-31 capture reaction. Excitation energies of the first J(pi) = 1/2(+), 5/2(+) states have been extracted and the reaction rate for proton capture on S-30 under typical rp-process temperatures has been investigated.
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- 2014
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