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Widths of astrophysically important resonances in 18Ne

  • B. Harss
  • , C. L. Jiang
  • , K. E. Rehm
  • , J. P. Schiffer
  • , J. Caggiano
  • , P. Collon
  • , J. P. Greene
  • , D. Henderson
  • , A. Heinz
  • , R. V.F. Janssens
  • , J. Nolen
  • , R. C. Pardo
  • , T. Pennington
  • , R. H. Siemssen
  • , A. A. Sonzogni
  • , J. Uusitalo
  • , I. Wiedenhöver
  • , M. Paul
  • , T. F. Wang
  • , F. Borasi
  • R. E. Segel, J. C. Blackmon, M. Smith, A. Chen, P. Parker

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Abstract

The astrophysically important reaction 14O(α,p)17F has been studied through a measurement of the time-inverse p(17F,α)14O reaction using a radioactive 17F beam. Resonance parameters for several states above an excitation energy of 7 MeV in 18Ne have been obtained. Through a measurement of the partial widths for elastic and inelastic proton scattering, it was determined that for these resonances the contribution of the 14O(α,p)17F* branch populating the first excited state in 17F is small. The results indicate that the contribution of resonances above Ex=7 MeV to the astrophysical (α,p) reaction rate is smaller than was previously assumed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number035803
Pages (from-to)358031-358039
Number of pages9
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume65
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2002

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