https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20146607012
Lithium and boron burning S(E)-factor measurements at astrophysical energies via the Trojan Horse Method
1 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Italy
2 Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy
3 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Italy
4 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Italy
5 Università degli Studi di Enna ”Kore”, Italy
6 Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
7 Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Università di Ferrara, Italy
a e-mail: llamia@lns.infn.it
Published online: 20 March 2014
The residual amount of light elements lithium, beryllium and boron (LiBeB) abundances in stellar atmospheres has been largely accepted as one of the most powerful probes for understanding stellar structure and mixing phenomena. They are in fact gradually destroyed at different depths of stellar interior mainly by (p,α), thus their fate in stars is an incomparable tool for studying mixing processes. In order to avoid extrapolation procedures on the available direct S(E)-factor measurements, the Trojan Horse Method (THM) has been developed, allowing one to measure the bare nucleus S(E)-factor for astrophysically relevant reactions without experiencing Coulomb penetrability effects. Here, a summary on the recent 6,7Li and 11B TH investigations will be given and the corresponding results discussed.
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