New High-Precision Measurement of the Reaction Rate of the 18O(p,alpha)15N Reaction via THM
astro-ph.SR
/ Authors
M. La Cognata, C. Spitaleri, A. M. Mukhamedzhanov, B. Irgaziev, R. E. Tribble, A. Banu, S. Cherubini, A. Coc, V. Crucilla, V. Z. Goldberg
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M. Gulino, G. G. Kiss, L. Lamia, L. Chengbo, J. Mrazek, R. G. Pizzone, S. M. R. Puglia, G. G. Rapisarda, S. Romano, M. L. Sergi, G. Tabacaru, L. Trache, W. Trzaska, A. Tumino
/ Abstract
The 18O(p,alpha)15N reaction rate has been extracted by means of the Trojan-Horse method. For the first time the contribution of the 20-keV peak has been directly evaluated, giving a value about 35% larger than previously estimated. The present approach has allowed to improve the accuracy of a factor 8.5, as it is based on the measured strength instead of educated guesses or spectroscopic measurements. The contribution of the 90-keV resonance has been determined as well, which turned out to be of negligible importance to astrophysics.