Investigation of thermonuclear ${}^{18}$Ne($\alpha$,$p$)${}^{21}$Na rate via resonant elastic scattering of ${}^{21}$Na+$p$

L. Y. Zhang, J. J. He, A. Parikh +22

The ${}^{18}$Ne($\alpha$,$p$)${}^{21}$Na reaction is thought to be one of the key breakout reactions from the hot CNO cycles to the rp-process in type I x-ray bursts. In this work, the reso…