Reactions such as Ne-18(alpha, p)Na-21 of importance to Nuclear Astrophysics may be studied directly through the use of a radioactive beam and a gaseous helium target. A system to study such reactions has been developed and tested using the N-13 beam available at the Radioactive Ion Beam facility (RIB) at Louvain-la-Neuve. This (alpha, p) reaction was chosen as previous studies of the inverse reaction O-16(p, alpha)N-13 allowed the resonance strength of a strong resonance at 8.07 MeV (Tilley et al., Nucl. Phys. A 564 (1993) 139) in the compound nucleus F-17 to be calculated and compared with that obtained through experiment. These resonance strengths showed good agreement and so validated the technique for further work. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Investigation of (alpha, p) reactions using a radioactive beam
CHERUBINI, SILVIO;
1999-01-01
Abstract
Reactions such as Ne-18(alpha, p)Na-21 of importance to Nuclear Astrophysics may be studied directly through the use of a radioactive beam and a gaseous helium target. A system to study such reactions has been developed and tested using the N-13 beam available at the Radioactive Ion Beam facility (RIB) at Louvain-la-Neuve. This (alpha, p) reaction was chosen as previous studies of the inverse reaction O-16(p, alpha)N-13 allowed the resonance strength of a strong resonance at 8.07 MeV (Tilley et al., Nucl. Phys. A 564 (1993) 139) in the compound nucleus F-17 to be calculated and compared with that obtained through experiment. These resonance strengths showed good agreement and so validated the technique for further work. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
