Revised rates for the stellar triple-α process from measurement of 12C nuclear resonances

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7022, 2005, Pages 136-139

  Fynbo, Hans O U ^a   Diget, Christian Aa ^a   Bergmann, Uffe C ^b   Borge, Maria J G ^c   Cederkäll, Joakim ^b   Dendooven, Peter ^d   Fraile, Luis M ^b   Franchoo, Serge ^b   Fedosseev, Valentin H ^b   Fulton, Brian R ^e   Huang, Wenxue ^f   Huikari, Jussi ^f   Jeppesen, Henrik B ^a   Jokinen, Ari S ^f,g   Jones, Peter ^f   Jonson, Björn ^h   Köster, Ulli ^b   Langanke, Karlheinz ^a   Meister, Mikael ^h   Nilsson, Thomas ^b   Hyman, Göran ^h   Prezado, Yolanda ^c   Riisager, Karsten ^a   Rinta Antila, Sami ^f   Tengblad, Olof ^c   Turrion, Manuela ^c   Wang, Youbao ^f   Weissman, Leonid ^b   Wilheimsen, Katarina ^h   Äystö, Juha ^f,g   more..

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTO DE ESTRUCTURA DE LA MATERIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^h CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; HYDROGEN; PLANETS; RESONANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMAL EFFECTS;

HELIUM NUCLEI; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; RESONANT REACTION; SUPERNOVAE;

ASTROPHYSICS;

CARBON; HELIUM; HYDROGEN;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATOM; CALCULATION; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; COSMOS; ENERGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MASS COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME;

GOES;

EID: 19944433071     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03219     Document Type: Article

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