| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 279, 2023
Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics – X (NPA-X 2022)
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| Article Number | 06008 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | s process | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202327906008 | |
| Published online | 22 March 2023 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202327906008
Stellar neutron spectra at 28 keV thermal temperature
1 INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Viale dell’Università 2, 35020, Legnaro, Italy.
2 Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear, 5ta y 30, Miramar, La Habana, Cuba.
* e-mail: musacchio@lnl.infn.it
Published online: 22 March 2023
To calculate the reaction rate in the neutron capture processes it is common to work with the Maxwellian Average Cross Section (MACS), defined as the reaction rate scaled by the most probable neutron velocity of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. For MACS determination with lower uncertainties, the need of a neutron spectrum as similar as possible to the stellar one motivates this work. At the CN Van der Graaff accelerator of the LNLINFN laboratories, an experimental measurement is performed to produce a Maxwell-Boltzmann neutron spectrum with 28 keV of thermal temperature. The neutron time-of-flight spectrometry is implemented to determine 0°-90° integrated neutron spectrum, employing the 7Li(p,n)7Be reaction as neutron source, an initial proton energy of 3.17 MeV and a 51 µm thickness aluminum foil, as proton energy shaper.
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