Advancement of Photospheric Radius Expansion and Clocked Type-I X-Ray Burst Models with the New Reaction Rate Determined at the Gamow Energy

We report the first (in)elastic scattering measurement of with the capability to select and measure in a broad energy range the proton resonances in contributing to the reaction at type I x-ray burst energies. We measured spin-parities of four resonances above the threshold of that are found to strongly impact the rate. The new rate advances a state-of-the-art model to remarkably reproduce light curves of the GS clocked burster with mean deviation and permits us to discover a strong correlation between the He abundance in the accreting envelope of the photospheric radius expansion burster and the dominance of branch.
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