https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159601001
C+C Fusion Cross Sections Measurements for Nuclear Astrophysics
1 Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
2 Laboratorio Tandar, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, B1650KNA San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
3 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803, USA.
4 Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
a Present Address: Department of Physics, Florida State University. Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. e-mail: salmaraz@physics.fsu.edu
b Pressent Address: TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia VGT 2A3, Canada.
c Pressent Address: Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35812, USA.
d Pressent Address: Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
Published online: 2 June 2015
Total fusion cross section of carbon isotopes were obtained using the newly developed MUSIC detector. MUSIC is a highly efficient, active target-detector system designed to measure fusion excitation functions with radioactive beams. The present measurements are relevant for understanding x-ray superbursts. The results of the first MUSIC campaign as well as the astrophysical implications are presented in this work.
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