Measurement of the ¹⁷ O(p,γ)¹⁸F reaction rate at astrophysically relevant energies

March 2012 • 2012PhRvC..85c5803H

Authors • Hager, U. • Buchmann, L. • Davids, B. • Fallis, J. • Fulton, B. R. • Galinski, N. • Greife, U. • Hutcheon, D. A. • Ottewell, D. • Rojas, A. • Ruiz, C. • Setoodehnia, K.

Abstract • The ¹⁷O(p,γ)¹⁸F reaction plays an important role in hydrogen-burning nucleosynthesis. Conflicting values for the low-energy behavior of its cross section exist in the literature. We present direct measurements of the astrophysical S factor of the ¹⁷O(p,γ)¹⁸F reaction at center-of-mass energies between 250 and 500 keV. These measurements were conducted in inverse kinematics at the DRAGON recoil separator.

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• ELECTR http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.85.035803