Nuclear astrophysics from direct reactions
arXiv:0802.3463
Abstract
Accurate nuclear reaction rates are needed for primordial nucleosynthesis and hydrostatic burning in stars. The relevant reactions are extremely difficult to measure directly in the laboratory at the small astrophysical energies. In recent years direct reactions have been developed and applied to extract low-energy astrophysical S-factors. These methods require a combination of new experimental techniques and theoretical efforts, which are the subject of this presentation.
arXiv comment6 pages, version published in Rev. Mex. Phys. 53, 11 (2008)
References in corpus (7)
- Energy Loss, Electron Screening, and the Astrophysical 3He(d,p)4He cross section
- 7Be(p,gamma)8B S-factor from ab initio wave functions
- Unbound exotic nuclei studied by transfer to the continuum reactions
- Direct capture astrophysical S factors at low energy
- Electronic stopping in astrophysical fusion reactions
- Coulomb excitation of unstable nuclei at intermediate energies
- On the Analysis of Intermediate-Energy Coulomb Excitation Experiments