https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716501019
Nuclear reactions in AGB nucleosynthesis: the 19F(α, p)22Ne at energies of astrophysical relevance
1 INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Via Santa Sofia 62, 95123, Catania, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Catania, Via S. Sofia, 64, 95123, Catania, Italy
3 Ruder Bošković Institute, Bijenicka cesta, 54, 10000, Zagreb, HR
4 Facoltà di Ingegneria ed Architettura, Kore University, Viale delle Olimpiadi, 1, I-94100 Enna, Italy
5 RIKEN, CNS, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
6 Department of Physics, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia - 723104, WB, India
7 Department of Physics, University of Zagreb, Bijenicka 32, Zagreb, Croatia
Published online: 30 December 2017
The abundance of 19F in the universe is strictly related to standard and extra-mixing processes taking place inside AGB-stars, that are considered to be the most important sites for its production. Nevertheless the way in which it is destroyed is far from being well understood. For this reason we studied the 19F(α,p)22Ne reaction, that is supposed to be the main destruction channel in the Helium-rich part of the star. In this experiment, the reaction has been studied in the energy range of relevance for astrophysics (0÷1 MeV) via the Trojan Horse Method (THM), using the three-body reaction 6Li(19F,p22Ne)d.
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