https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716501014
The Nuclear Astrophysics program at n_TOF (CERN)
1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy;
2 Universidad de Sevilla, Spain;
3 Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Universidad de Valencia, Spain;
4 University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain;
5 Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany;
6 Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Spain;
7 University of Lodz, Poland;
8 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland;
9 Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania;
10 Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal;
11 Technische Universität Wien, Austria;
12 CEA Saclay, Irfu, Gif-sur-Yvette, France;
13 Physikalisch- Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany;
14 Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Villingen, Switzerland;
15 Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie (ENEA), Bologna, Italy;
16 Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, France;
17 University of Manchester, United Kingdom;
18 University of Zagreb, Croatia;
19 Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic;
20 University of York, United Kingdom;
21 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain;
22 INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy;
23 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy;
24 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia;
25 Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan;
26 European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Geel, Belgium;
27 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IKP, Karlsruhe, Germany;
28 National Technical University of Athens, Greece;
29 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom;
30 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Italy;
31 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy;
32 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Legnaro, Italy;
33 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bari, Italy;
34 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Italy;
35 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Italy;
36 University of Ioannina, Greece;
37 University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Vienna, Austria;
38 University of Granada, Spain;
39 Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland;
40 Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom:
41 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India;
42 Australian National University, Canberra,
43 INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania, Teramo, Italy
* Corresponding author: nicola.colonna@ba.infn.it
Published online: 30 December 2017
An important experimental program on Nuclear Astrophysics is being carried out at the n_TOF since several years, in order to address the still open issues in stellar and primordial nucleosynthesis. Several neutron capture reactions relevant to s-process nucleosynthesis have been measured so far, some of which on important branching point radioisotopes. Furthermore, the construction of a second experimental area has recently opened the way to challenging measurements of (n, charged particle) reactions on isotopes of short half-life. The Nuclear Astrophysics program of the n_TOF Collaboration is here described, with emphasis on recent results relevant for stellar nucleosynthesis, stellar neutron sources and primordial nucleosynthesis.
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