Nova reaction rates and experiments

✍ Scribed by S. Bishop; C. Herlitzius; J. Fiehl

• Book ID: 104089550
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 521 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0146-6410
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ppnp.2011.01.033

✦ Synopsis

Oxygen-neon novae form a subset of classical novae events known to freshly synthesize nuclei up to mass number A 40. Because several gamma-ray emitters lie in this mass range, these novae are also interesting candidates for gamma-ray astronomy. The properties of excited states within those nuclei in this mass region play a critical role in determining the resonant (p, γ ) reaction rates, themselves, largely unknown for the unstable nuclei. We describe herein a new Doppler shift lifetime facility at the Maier-Leibnitz tandem laboratory, Technische Universität München, with which we will map out important resonant (p, γ ) nova reaction rates.