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The 3 He+ 5 He → α + α reaction below the Coulomb barrier via the Trojan Horse Method

  • C. Spitaleri*
  • , S. Typel
  • , C. A. Bertulani
  • , A. M. Mukhamedzhanov
  • , T. Kajino
  • , M. Lattuada
  • , A. Cvetinović
  • , S. Messina
  • , G. L. Guardo
  • , N. Soić
  • , M. Milin
  • , S. S. Perrotta
  • , Chengbo Li
  • , P. Čolović
  • , G. D’Agata
  • , D. Dell’Aquila
  • , C. G. Fatuzzo
  • , M. Gulino
  • , S. Q. Hou
  • , M. La Cognata
  • D. Lattuada, D. Nurkić, R. Popočovski, N. Skukan, S. Szilner, O. Trippella, M. Uroić, N. Vukman
*Corresponding author for this work
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Catania
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • Texas A&M University-Commerce
  • United States Department of Energy
  • National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Ruder Boskovic Institute
  • University of Zagreb
  • University of Seville
  • Beijing Radiation Center
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Kore University of Enna
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

For the first time in an application to nuclear astrophysics, a process induced by the unstable 5He = (4He-n) nucleus, the 3He+5He→ 2α reaction, has been studied through the Trojan Horse Method (THM). For that purpose, the quasi-free (QF) contribution of the 9Be(3He,αα)4He reaction was selected at E3He=4 MeV incident energy. The reaction was studied in a kinematically complete experiment following a recent publication (Spitaleri et al. in Eur Phys J A 56:18, 2020), where for the quasi free contribution the momentum distribution between α and 5He particle cluster in the 9Be nucleus in the ground state have been extracted. The angular distribution of the QF 3He+5He→ 2α reaction was measured at θcm = 78–115. The energy dependence of the differential cross section of the 3He+5He→ 2α virtual reaction was extracted in the energy range Ecm = 0–650 keV. The total cross section obtained from the Trojan-horse method was normalized to absolute cross sections from a theoretical calculation in the energy range Ecm =300–620 keV.

Original languageEnglish
Article number20
JournalEuropean Physical Journal A
Volume57
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2021

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