Direct measurements of the 12C(12C,p)23Na and 12C(12C,α)20Ne reactions at low energies for Nuclear Astrophysics

Lizeth Morales-Gallegos; Marialuisa Aliotta; Andreas Best; Carlo G. Bruno; Raffaele Buompane; Thomas Davinson; Mario De Cesare; Antonino Di Leva; Antonio D’Onofrio; Jeremias G. Duarte; Leandro Gasques; Lucio Gialanella; Gianluca Imbriani; Giuseppe Porzio; David Rapagnani; Mauro Romoli; Filippo Terrasi

doi:10.1051/epjconf/202226001006

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Volume 260 (2022)

EPJ Web Conf., 260 (2022) 01006

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Issue		EPJ Web Conf. Volume 260, 2022 The 16^th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC-XVI)


Article Number		01006
Number of page(s)		5
Section		Nuclear Reaction Rates and Stellar Abundances
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202226001006
Published online		24 February 2022

EPJ Web of Conferences 260, 01006 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202226001006

Direct measurements of the ¹²C(¹²C,p)²³Na and ¹²C(¹²C,α)²⁰Ne reactions at low energies for Nuclear Astrophysics

Lizeth Morales-Gallegos¹^,2^,3^*, Marialuisa Aliotta²^,3, Andreas Best⁴, Carlo G. Bruno², Raffaele Buompane³, Thomas Davinson², Mario De Cesare⁵, Antonino Di Leva⁴, Antonio D’Onofrio³, Jeremias G. Duarte³^,1, Leandro Gasques⁶, Lucio Gialanella³, Gianluca Imbriani⁴, Giuseppe Porzio³, David Rapagnani⁴, Mauro Romoli¹ and Filippo Terrasi³

¹ INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
² SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
³ Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy
⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica “E. Pancini”, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Napoli, Italy
⁵ Centro Italiano di Ricerche Aerospaziali, Capua, Italy
⁶ Departamento de Física Nuclear, Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

^* e-mail: moralesgallegos@na.infn.it

Published online: 24 February 2022

Abstract

¹²C+¹²C reactions are crucial in the evolution of massive stars and explosive scenarios. The measurement of these reactions at astrophysical energies is very challenging due to their extremely small cross sections, and the presence of beam induced background originated by the natural ^1,2H contaminants in the C targets. In addition, the many discrepancies between different data sets and the complicated resonant structure of the cross sections make the extrapolation to low energies very uncertain. Recently, we performed a direct measurement of the ¹²C+¹²C reactions at the CIRCE Laboratory in Italy. Results from a study on target contamination were used, allowing us to measure cross sections at E_c_._m_. =2.51 − 4.36 MeV with 10-25 keV energy steps. Two stage ΔE-Erest detectors were used for unambiguous particle identiﬁcation. Branching ratios of individual particle groups were found to vary signiﬁcantly with energy and angular distributions were also found to be anisotropic, which could be a potential explanation for the discrepancies observed among different data sets.

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