C+C Fusion Cross Sections Measurements for Nuclear Astrophysics

¹ Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
² Laboratorio Tandar, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, B1650KNA San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, USA.
⁴ Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.

^a Present Address: Department of Physics, Florida State University. Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. e-mail: salmaraz@physics.fsu.edu
^b Pressent Address: TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia VGT 2A3, Canada.
^c Pressent Address: Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35812, USA.
^d Pressent Address: Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.

Published online: 2 June 2015

Abstract

Total fusion cross section of carbon isotopes were obtained using the newly developed MUSIC detector. MUSIC is a highly efficient, active target-detector system designed to measure fusion excitation functions with radioactive beams. The present measurements are relevant for understanding x-ray superbursts. The results of the first MUSIC campaign as well as the astrophysical implications are presented in this work.