New measurement of the 10B(p,α0)7Be reaction cross section at low energies and the structure of 11C

I. Lombardo; D. Dell’Aquila; F. Conte; L. Francalanza; M. La Cognata; L. Lamia; R. La Torre; G. Spadaccini; C. Spitaleri; M. Vigilante

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201611709009

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EPJ Web of Conferences 117, 09009 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611709009

New measurement of the ¹⁰B(p,α₀)⁷Be reaction cross section at low energies and the structure of ¹¹C

I. Lombardo¹^,2^*, D. Dell’Aquila¹^,2, F. Conte¹, L. Francalanza², M. La Cognata³, L. Lamia³^,4, R. La Torre¹^,2, G. Spadaccini¹^,2, C. Spitaleri³^,4 and M. Vigilante¹^,2

¹ Dipartimento di Fisica “Ettore Pancini”, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Cintia, Napoli, Italy and INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
² INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Via Cintia, Napoli, Italy
³ INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Via Santa Sofia, Catania, Italy
⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Via Santa Sofia, Catania, Italy

^* e-mail address: ivlombardo@na.infn.it

Published online: 11 May 2016

Abstract

We report preliminary results of a new measurement of the ¹⁰B(p,α₀)⁷Be cross section in the 0.6 - 1.0 MeV bombarding energy domain. In this region very few data have been reported in the literature. Excitation functions at both forward and backward angles have been obtained. Angular distributions testify the contribution due to several excited states in the ¹¹C compound nucleus. The experimental S-factor is about 30% lower than the one reported in the literature and based on activation methods.

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