Observation of the astrophysically important 3+ state in 18Ne via elastic scattering of a radioactive 17P beam from 1H

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作者
Bardayan, DW [1 ]
Blackmon, JC
Brune, CR
Champagne, AE
Chen, AA
Cox, JM
Davinson, T
Hansper, VY
Hofstee, MA
Johnson, BA
Kozub, RL
Ma, Z
Parker, PD
Pierce, DE
Rabban, MT
Shotter, AC
Smith, MS
Swartz, KB
Visser, DW
Woods, PJ
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[1] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Div Phys, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[2] Yale Univ, AW Wright Nucl Struct Lab, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
[3] Univ N Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
[4] Tennessee Technol Univ, Dept Phys, Cookeville, TN 38505 USA
[5] Univ Edinburgh, Dept Phys & Astron, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Midlothian, Scotland
[6] Colorado Sch Mines, Dept Phys, Golden, CO 80401 USA
[7] Chinese Inst Atom Energy, Beijing 102413, Peoples R China
[8] Joint Inst Heavy Ion Res, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.45
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O4 [物理学];
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摘要
The F-17(p, gamma)Ne-18 reaction is important in stellar explosions, but its rate has been uncertain because of an expected 3(+) state in Ne-18 that has never been conclusively observed. This state would provide a strong l = 0 resonance and, depending an its excitation energy, could dominate the stellar reaction rate. We have observed this missing 3(+) state by measuring the H-1(F-17, p)F-17 excitation function with a radioactive F-17 beam at the ORNL Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility, We find that the state lies at a center-of-mass energy of E-r = 599.8 +/- 1.5(stat) +/- 2.0(sys) keV (E-x = 4523.7 +/- 2.9 keV) and has a width of Gamma = 18 +/- 2(stat) +/- 1(sys) keV.
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