https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202327909003
Neutron-induced charged-particle reaction studies in nuclear astrophysics with a Micromegas based gaseous detector
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
* e-mail: chandrabhan.yadav@mail.huji.ac.il
Published online: 22 March 2023
Neutron-induced charged-particle reaction studies on various unstable nuclei play an important role in understanding various nucleosynthesis processes occurring in explosive astrophysical scenarios. We are pursuing a novel experimental approach to study neutron-induced charge particle cross-sections for various unstable nuclei at effective temperatures of 1.5-3.5 GK using the 7Li(p, n)7Be reaction as a neutron source with three orders of magnitude higher neutron intensities with respect to currently available neutron time-of-flight facilities. We plan to perform our experiments with a 10-µA proton beam at the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt facility (PTB, Germany), with a Micromegas based gaseous detector being developed.
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