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Investigating the astrophysical Ne-22(p, gamma)Na-23 and Mg-22(p, gamma)Al-23 reactions with a multi-channel scattering formalism
PR Fraser, L Canton, K Amos, S Karataglidis, JP Svenne, D van der Kniff, S Lunardi (ed.), PG Bizzeti (ed.), S Kabana (ed.), C Bucci (ed.), M Chiari (ed.), A Dainese (ed.), P DiNezza (ed.), R Menegazzo (ed.), A Nannini (ed.), C Signorini (ed.), JJ ValienteDobon (ed.)
INPC 2013 - INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR PHYSICS CONFERENCE, VOL. 1 | E D P SCIENCES | Published : 2014
Abstract
The reaction 22Ne(p, γ)23Na is key to the NeNa cycle of stellar nucleogenesis, and better understanding of the 22Mg(p, γ)23Al reaction is needed to understand the 22Na puzzle in ONe white dwarf novae. We aim to study these reactions using a multi-channel algebraic scattering (MCAS) formalism for low-energy nucleon-nucleus scattering, recently expanded to investigate radiative capture. As a first step towards this goal, we here calculate the energy levels of the mass-23 (Ne, Mg, Na, Al) nuclei. This is not only because the resonant structure of these nuclei are related to the astrophysical -rates of interest, but also because the interaction parameters determined for describing the energy lev..
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