The cross section of 3He(3He,2p)4He measured at solar energies

✍ Scribed by M. Junker; C. Arpesella; E. Bellotti; C. Broggini; P. Corvisiero; A. D'Alessandro; G. Fiorentini; A. Fubini; G. Gervino; U. Greife; C. Gustavino; J. Lambert; P. Prati; W.S. Rodney; C. Rolfs; H.P. Trautvetter; S. Zavatarelli

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 394 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(98)00458-7

✦ Synopsis

We report on the status of the 3He(3He,2p)4He experiment at the underground accelerator facility LUNA (Gran !&so).

The lowest projectile energies for the measured cross section correspond already to energies below the center of the solar Gamow peak (E0=22 keV). The data provide no evidence for the existence of a hypothetical resonance in the energy range investigated. Although no extrapolation is needed anymore (except for energies at the low-energy tail of the Gamow peak), the data must be corrected for the effects of electron screening, clearly observed the first time for the 3He(3He,2p)4He reaction. The effects are however larger than expected and not understood, leading presently to the largest uncertainty on the quoted S(0) value for bare nuclides (= 5.40 MeVb).