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First Nb() Measurement: Constraining the Nucleosynthetic Origin of Mo in Presolar Grains
J. Balibrea-Correa, J. Lerendegui-Marco, C. Domingo-Pardo +136
Isotopic measurements of presolar silicon carbide grains from dying stars have revealed a puzzling overabundance of Mo that stellar nucleosynthesis models have failed to rep…
Strangeness photoproduction at the BGO-OD experiment
Georg Scheluchin, Stefan Alef, Patrick Bauer +30
The BGO-OD experiment at the University of Bonn's ELSA accelerator facility in Germany is ideally suited to investigate photoproduction at extreme forward angles. It combines a hig…
Strangeness Photoproduction at the BGO-OD experiment
T. C. Jude, S. Alef, P. Bauer +30
The BGO-OD experiment at the ELSA accelerator facility uses an energy tagged bremsstrahlung photon beam to investigate the excitation structure of the nucleon. The setup consists o…
Strangeness Photoproduction at the BGO-OD Experiment
T. C. Jude, S. Alef, D. Bayadilov +61
BGO-OD is a newly commissioned experiment to investigate the internal structure of the nucleon, using an energy tagged bremsstrahlung photon beam at the ELSA electron facility. The…
First Measurement of the Beam Asymmetry in Photoproduction off the Proton near Threshold
P. Levi Sandri, G. Mandaglio, V. De Leo +33
The beam asymmetry in photoproduction off the proton was measured at the GrAAL polarised photon beam with incoming photon energies of 1.461 and 1.480 GeV. For both…
Neutron-induced background by an alpha-beam incident on a deuterium gas target and its implications for the study of the 2H(alpha,gamma)6Li reaction at LUNA
M. Anders, D. Trezzi, A. Bellini +26
The production of the stable isotope Li-6 in standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis has recently attracted much interest. Recent observations in metal-poor stars suggest that a cosmolog…
Preparation and characterisation of isotopically enriched TaO targets for nuclear astrophysics studies
A. Caciolli, D. A. Scott, A. Di Leva +33
The direct measurement of reaction cross sections at astrophysical energies often requires the use of solid targets of known thickness, isotopic composition, and stoichiometry that…
The 14N(p,gamma)15O reaction studied with a composite germanium detector
M. Marta, A. Formicola, D. Bemmerer +26
The rate of the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) cycle of hydrogen burning is controlled by the 14N(p,gamma)15O reaction. The reaction proceeds by capture to the ground states and seve…
Beam asymmetry measurements on the photoproduction off neutrons
G. Mandaglio, F. Mammoliti, M. Manganaro +30
The beam asymmetry in the photoproduction of negative pions from quasi-free neutrons in a deuterium target was measured at Graal in the energy interval 700 - 1500 MeV and a wid…
An actively vetoed Clover gamma-detector for nuclear astrophysics at LUNA
LUNA collaboration, T. Szucs, D. Bemmerer +26
An escape-suppressed, composite high-purity germanium detector of the Clover type has been installed at the Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics (LUNA) facility, deep un…
Direct measurement of the 15N(p,gamma)16O total cross section at novae energies
D Bemmerer, A Caciolli, R Bonetti +21
The 15N(p,gamma)16O reaction controls the passage of nucleosynthetic material from the first to the second carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) cycle. A direct measurement of the total 15N…
Ultra-sensitive in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy for nuclear astrophysics at LUNA
A. Caciolli, L. Agostino, D. Bemmerer +29
Ultra-sensitive in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy studies for nuclear astrophysics are performed at the LUNA (Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics) 400 kV accelerator, deep…
The 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be S-factor at solar energies: the prompt gamma experiment at LUNA
H. Costantini, D. Bemmerer, F. Confortola +28
The 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be process is a key reaction in both Big-Bang nucleosynthesis and p-p chain of Hydrogen Burning in Stars. A new measurement of the 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be cross se…
Precision study of ground state capture in the 14N(p,gamma)15O reaction
M. Marta, A. Formicola, Gy. Gyurky +28
The rate of the hydrogen-burning carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) cycle is controlled by the slowest process, 14N(p,gamma)15O, which proceeds by capture to the ground and several excit…
Measurement of beam-recoil observables Ox, Oz and target asymmetry for the reaction gamma p -> K Lambda
A. Lleres, O. Bartalini, JP. Bocquet +36
The double polarization (beam-recoil) observables Ox and Oz have been measured for the reaction gamma p -> K Lambda from threshold production to Egamma = 1500 MeV. The data were ob…
Measurement of 25Mg(p; gamma)26Al resonance strengths via gamma spectrometry
A. Formicola, A. Best, G. Imbriani +28
The COMPTEL instrument performed the first mapping of the 1.809 MeV photons in the Galaxy, triggering considerable interest in determing the sources of interstellar 26Al. The predi…
Ground state capture in N(p,)O studied above the 259 keV resonance at LUNA
H. P. Trautvetter, D. Bemmerer, R. Bonetti +29
We report on a new measurement of N(p,)O for the ground state capture transition at = 360, 380 and 400 keV, using the 400 kV LUNA accelerator. The true coinc…
Comparison of the LUNA 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be activation results with earlier measurements and model calculations
Gy. Gyurky, D. Bemmerer, F. Confortola +27
Recently, the LUNA collaboration has carried out a high precision measurement on the 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be reaction cross section with both activation and on-line gamma-detection met…
Astrophysical S-factor of the 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be reaction measured at low energy via prompt and delayed gamma detection
F. Confortola, D. Bemmerer, H. Costantini +28
Solar neutrino fluxes depend both on astrophysical and on nuclear physics inputs, namely on the cross sections of the reactions responsible for neutrino production inside the Solar…
3He(alpha,gamma)7Be cross section at low energies
Gy. Gyurky, F. Confortola, H. Costantini +27
The flux of 7Be and 8B neutrinos from the Sun and the production of 7Li via primordial nucleosynthesis depend on the rate of the 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be reaction. In extension of a pre…
Activation measurement of the 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be cross section at low energy
D. Bemmerer, F. Confortola, H. Costantini +27
The nuclear physics input from the 3He(alpha,gamma)7Be cross section is a major uncertainty in the fluxes of 7Be and 8B neutrinos from the Sun predicted by solar models and in the…
First measurement of the 14N(p,gamma)15O cross section down to 70 keV
A. Lemut, D. Bemmerer, F. Confortola +28
In stars with temperatures above 20*10^6 K, hydrogen burning is dominated by the CNO cycle. Its rate is determined by the slowest process, the 14N(p,gamma)15O reaction. Deep underg…
S-factor of 14N(p,gamma)15O at astrophysical energies
G. Imbriani, H. Costantini, A. Formicola +31
The astrophysical S-factor of 14N(p,gamma)15O has been measured for effective center-of-mass energies between E_eff = 119 and 367 keV at the LUNA facility using TiN solid targets a…
Feasibility of low energy radiative capture experiments at the LUNA underground accelerator facility
D. Bemmerer, F. Confortola, A. Lemut +29
The LUNA (Laboratory Underground for Nuclear Astrophysics) facility has been designed to study nuclear reactions of astrophysical interest. It is located deep underground in the Gr…