Measurement of the Ne18(α,p 0)Na21 reaction cross section in the burning energy region for x-ray bursts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Salter, P J C ^a   Aliotta, M ^a   Davinson, T ^a   Al Falou, H ^b   Chen, A ^b   Davids, B ^b   Fulton, B R ^c   Galinski, N ^b,d   Howell, D ^b,d   Lotay, G ^a   MacHule, P ^b   Murphy, A Stj ^a   Ruiz, C ^b   Sjue, S ^b   Taggart, M ^c   Walden, P ^b   Woods, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b TRIUMF   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY REGIONS; PEAK TEMPERATURES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; REACTION CROSS-SECTIONS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TIME-REVERSAL; X-RAY BURSTS;

INVERSE KINEMATICS;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 84862195756     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.242701     Document Type: Article

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