Abstract
Gamma ray astronomy has made big strides in the last decades paving the way to a better understanding of explosive nucleosynthesis. In particular, crucial information on novae nucleosynthesis is linked to the abundance of the 18 F isotope, which might be detected in explosive environments. Therefore, the reaction network producing and destroying this radioactive isotope has been extensively studied in the last years. Among those reactions, the 18 F(p,α)15 O cross section has been measured by means of several dedicated experiments, both using direct and indirect methods. The presence of resonances in the energy region of astrophysical interest has been reported by many authors. In the present work a report on a recent experiment performed via the Trojan Horse Method (THM) at the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute is presented and the results are given and compared with the ones known in the literature, both direct and indirect. Data arising from THM measurements are then averaged and the reaction rate calculated in the novae energy range. Hints on future astrophysical applications will also be given.
Highlights
Gamma ray emission from novae detected in dedicated satellite-borne experiments has become a probe for understanding novae explosions as well as the structure of such exotic stellar objects
In the last decade this reaction has been widely studied and, in particular, great efforts have been devoted to its study by means of direct measurements at the relevant astrophysical energies. Such a measurement appears to be very challenging for the involved energy range which leads to tiny cross sections and because the 18F is a radioactive isotope, so it requires dedicated techniques to be produced
The Trojan Horse Method (THM) [14, 15] is suited to investigate binary reactions induced at astrophysical energies by neutrons or charged particles by using appropriate three-body reactions
Summary
Gamma ray emission from novae detected in dedicated satellite-borne experiments has become a probe for understanding novae explosions as well as the structure of such exotic stellar objects. In the last decade this reaction has been widely studied and, in particular, great efforts have been devoted to its study by means of direct measurements at the relevant astrophysical energies. The Trojan Horse Method (THM) [14, 15] is suited to investigate binary reactions induced at astrophysical energies by neutrons or charged particles by using appropriate three-body reactions.
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