First Experimental Constraint on the Fe-59(n, gamma)Fe-60 Reaction Cross Section at Astrophysical Energies via the Coulomb Dissociation of Fe-60
Journal article, 2014
The radionuclide Fe-60 has been of great interest to the nuclear astrophysics community for over a decade. An initial discrepancy between the observed and modeled Galactic Fe-60/Al-26 ratio motivated numerous studies focused on the nucleosynthesis of these two isotopes, though the cross section of the primary astrophysical production reaction, Fe-59(n,gamma)Fe-60, has remained purely theoretical. The present work offers a first experimental constraint on the Fe-59(n,gamma)Fe-60 cross section at astrophysical energies, obtained indirectly via Coulomb dissociation, and demonstrates that the theoretical reaction rates used in present stellar models are not highly erroneous.
Author
E. Uberseder
T. Adachi
T. Aumann
S. Beceiro-Novo
K. Boretzky
C. Caesar
I. Dillmann
O. Ershova
A. Estrade
F. Farinon
Julius Hagdahl
Chalmers, Fundamental Physics
T. Heftrich
M. Heil
M. Heine
M. Holl
A. Ignatov
Håkan T Johansson
Chalmers, Fundamental Physics
N. Kalantar
C. Langer
T. Le Bleis
Y. A. Litvinov
J. Marganiec
A. Movsesyan
M. A. Najafi
Thomas Nilsson
Chalmers, Fundamental Physics
C. Nociforo
V. Panin
S. Pietri
R. Plag
A. Prochazka
G. Rastrepina
R. Reifarth
V. Ricciardi
C. Rigollet
D. M. Rossi
D. Savran
H. Simon
K. Sonnabend
B. Streicher
S. Terashima
Ronja Thies
Chalmers, Fundamental Physics
Y. Togano
V. Volkov
F. Wamers
H. Weick
M. Weigand
M. Wiescher
C. Wimmer
N. Winckler
P. J. Woods
Physical Review Letters
0031-9007 (ISSN) 1079-7114 (eISSN)
Vol. 112 21 211101Subject Categories
Subatomic Physics
Physical Sciences
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Roots
Basic sciences
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.211101