https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202329009009
Few-Body Reactions with the Trojan Horse Method
1 Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana," Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania I-95123, Italy
2 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, I-95123 Catania, Italy
3 Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura, Università degli Studi "Kore", I-94100 Enna, Italy
* e-mail: grapisarda@lns.infn.it
Published online: 8 December 2023
The Trojan Horse method (THM) is a well-established experimental technique to measure nuclear reactions of astrophysical interest avoiding the suppression of the Coulomb barrier affecting experimental direct measurements. In this paper it will describe some of the THM studies involving few-body system of interest for both nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics, such as the sub-Coulomb proton-proton elastic scattering and the deuteron-deuteron fusion at energies of interest for primordial nucleosynthesis. Moreover, the role of the intercluster motion in nuclei used for THM measurement will be highlight for the discussed physics cases.
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