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Nuclear Physics Mid Term Plan at LNGS
R. Buompane, F. Cavanna, C. Curceanu +59
The Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) is one of the largest underground physics laboratory, a very peculiar environment suited for ex…
The Ne(,n)Mg reaction -- state of the art, astrophysics, and perspectives
Andreas Best, Philip Adsley, Ryan Amberger +11
One of the most important stellar neutron sources is the Ne(,n)Mg reaction, which gets activated both during the helium intershell burning in asymptotic giant bran…
Total cross section of N+ from 0.1 to 12~MeV
R. J. deBoer, R. Arquette, D. Bemmerer +18
The reaction NC is one of the main neutron poisons during -process nucleosynthesis. In addition, the reaction provides insight into the yields of atmospheric…
Strength measurement of the = 830 keV resonance in reaction using a stilbene detector
Shahina, R. J. deBoer, J. Gorres +13
The interplay between the NeMg and the competing NeMg reactions determines the efficiency of the latter as a neutron source at the temperature…
Energy, strength, and alpha width measurements of and keV resonances in N()F
R. Fang, J. Görres, R. J. deBoer +13
The N()F reaction produces F in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, where the low energy tails of two resonances at and $148…
Deep underground laboratory measurement of C(,)O in the Gamow windows of the - and -processes
B. Gao, T. Y. Jiao, Y. T. Li +71
The C(,)O reaction is the main neutron source for the slow-neutron-capture (s-) process in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars and for the intermediate (i-) process.…
Horizons: Nuclear Astrophysics in the 2020s and Beyond
H. Schatz, A. D. Becerril Reyes, A. Best +162
Nuclear Astrophysics is a field at the intersection of nuclear physics and astrophysics, which seeks to understand the nuclear engines of astronomical objects and the origin of the…
The Status and Future of Direct Nuclear Reaction Measurements for Stellar Burning
M. Aliotta, R. Buompane, M. Couder +22
The study of stellar burning began just over 100 years ago. Nonetheless, we do not yet have a detailed picture of the nucleosynthesis within stars and how nucleosynthesis impacts s…
Lifetime measurements of excited states in O
B. Frentz, A. Aprahamian, A. M. Clark +14
The CNO cycle is the main energy source in stars more massive than our sun, it defines the energy production and the cycle time that lead to the lifetime of massive stars, and it i…
New measurement of C+C fusion reaction at astrophysical energies
W. P. Tan, A. Boeltzig, C. Dulal +19
Carbon and oxygen burning reactions, in particular, C+C fusion, are important for the understanding and interpretation of the late phases of stellar evolution as well…
Determination of hexadecapole () deformation of the light-mass nucleus Mg using quasi-elastic measurement
Y. K. Gupta, B. K. Nayak, U. Garg +26
Quasi-elastic scattering measurements have been performed using O and Mg projectiles off Zr at energies around the Coulomb barrier. Experimental data have been…
The 12C(a,g)16O reaction and its implications for stellar helium burning
R. J. deBoer, J. Gorres, M. Wiescher +10
The creation of carbon and oxygen in our universe is one of the forefront questions in nuclear astrophysics. The determination of the abundance of these elements is key to both our…
Shell and explosive hydrogen burning
A. Boeltzig, C. G. Bruno, F. Cavanna +10
The nucleosynthesis of light elements, from helium up to silicon, mainly occurs in Red Giant and Asymptotic Giant Branch stars and Novae. The relative abundances of the synthesized…
Probing astrophysically important states in Mg nucleus to study neutron sources for the -Process
R. Talwar, T. Adachi, G. P. A. Berg +20
The Ne(,n)Mg reaction is the dominant neutron source for the slow neutron capture process (-process) in massive stars and contributes, together with the …
The first direct measurement of 12C(12C,n)23Mg at stellar energies
B. Bucher, X. D. Tang, X. Fang +28
Neutrons produced by the carbon fusion reaction 12C(12C,n)23Mg play an important role in stellar nucleosynthesis. However, past studies have shown large discrepancies between exper…
Measurement of the reaction O-17(α,n)Ne-20 and its impact on the s process in massive stars
A. Best, M. Beard, J. Görres +16
The ratio between the rates of the reactions O-17(α,n)Ne-20 and O-17(α,γ)Ne-21 determines whether O-16 is an efficient neutron poison for the s process in massive stars, or if most…
Suppression of the centrifugal barrier effects in the off-energy-shell neutron+O interaction
M. Gulino, C. Spitaleri, X. D. Tang +27
The reaction O()C was studied at energies from to keV using the quasi-free deuteron break-up in the three body reaction O$+d \righ…
Proton Capture on ^{17}O and its astrophysical implications
Antonios Kontos, Joachim Görres, Andreas Best +9
The reaction OF influences hydrogen-burning nucleosynthesis in several stellar sites, such as red giants, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, massive stars and…
Constraining the S factor of 15N(p,g)16O at Astrophysical Energies
P. J. LeBlanc, G. Imbriani, J. Goerres +44
The 15N(p,g)16O reaction represents a break out reaction linking the first and second cycle of the CNO cycles redistributing the carbon and nitrogen abundances into the oxygen rang…
Measurements of proton induced reaction cross sections on 120Te for the astrophysical p-process
R. T. Güray, N. Özkan, C. Yalçın +12
The total cross sections for the 120Te(p,gamma)121I and 120Te(p,n)120I reactions have been measured by the activation method in the effective center-of-mass energies between 2.47 M…