Phys.Rev. C 89, 015804 (2014)

L.Y.Zhang, J.J.He, A.Parikh, S.W.Xu, H.Yamaguchi, D.Kahl, S.Kubono, P.Mohr, J.Hu, P.Ma, S.Z.Chen, Y.Wakabayashi, H.W.Wang, W.D.Tian, R.F.Chen, B.Guo, T.Hashimoto, Y.Togano, S.Hayakawa, T.Teranishi, N.Iwasa, T.Yamada, T.Komatsubara, Y.H.Zhang, X.H.Zhou

Investigation of the thermonuclear ¹⁸Ne(α, p)²¹Na reaction rate via resonant elastic scattering of ²¹Na + p

NUCLEAR REACTIONS ¹H(²¹Na, p), E=89 MeV, [²¹Na secondary beam from ²H(²⁰Ne, X), E=8.2 MeV/nucleon primary reaction]; measured particle spectra, Ep, Ip, σ using CNS Radioactive Ion Beam Separator at RIKEN facility. ²²Mg; deduced levels, resonances, J, π, proton widths, resonance parameters by R-matrix analysis. comparison with previous experimental results. ¹⁸Ne(α, p)²¹Na; deduced thermonuclear reaction rates. One-zone postprocessing x-ray burst calculations, and effect on peak nuclear energy generation rate, reaction fluxes, and onset temperature of breakout reaction from hot CNO cycles to rp process in type I x-ray bursts.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.89.015804