Abstract
The Trojan Horse Method is an indirect technique to measure nuclear reactions of astrophysical relevance at the energies of interest, free of Coulomb suppression and electron screening effects. Its basic features in the framework of the theory of direct reactions will be discussed and the physics case of the 12C+12C fusion will be addressed.
Highlights
Coulomb repulsion between like charges is a critical issue in nuclear astrophysics, being responsible for the exponential decrease of the cross section σ(E) of the relevant nuclear reactions at astrophysical energies
In the laboratory measurement of nucleosynthesis processes, another critical issue is represented by the electron screening effect that leads to an increased cross section for screened nuclei, σs(E), compared to the cross section for bare nuclei σb(E) [1, 2]
The Trojan Horse Method (THM) ([3, 6] and references therein) has been successfully applied many times in the last two decades to reactions connected with fundamental astrophysical problems
Summary
Aurora Tumino1,2,∗, Claudio Spitaleri, Marco La Cognata, Silvio Cherubini, Giovanni Luca Guardo, Marisa Gulino, Iolanda Indelicato, Livio Lamia, Rosario Gianluca Pizzone, Giuseppe Gabriele Rapisarda, Stefano Romano, Maria Letizia Sergi, and Roberta Spartà
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