Fri·Dec 27, 2019Friday·December 27, 2019

1. 01*

   Re-analysis of the ${}^{24}$Mg($\alpha ,\gamma$)${}^{28}$Si reaction rate at stellar temperatures

   P. Adsley🇿🇦 · A. M. Laird🇬🇧 · Z. Meisel🇺🇸

   The ${}^{24}$Mg($\alpha ,\gamma$)${}^{28}$Si reaction influences the production of magnesium and silicon isotopes during carbon burning and is one of eight reaction rates found to significantly impact the shape of calculated X-ray burst light curves. The reaction rate is based on measured resonance strengths and known properties of levels in ${}^{28}$Si. The ${}^{24}$Mg($\alpha ,\gamma$)${}^{28}$Si reaction rate has been re-evaluated including recent additional indirect data. The reaction rate is substantially unchanged from previously calculated rates, especially at astrophysically important temperatures. Increases in the reaction rate could occur at lower temperatures due to as-yet unmeasured resonances but these increases have little astrophysical impact. The ${}^{24}$Mg($\alpha ,\gamma$)${}^{28}$Si reaction rate at temperatures relevant to carbon burning and Type I X-ray bursts is well constrained by the available experimental data. This removes one reaction from the list of eight previously found to be important for X-ray burst light curve model-observation comparisons.

   nucl-exastro-ph.SRPRC(2020)·12 citations
2. 02*

   Analysis of ${}^4$He($\gamma ,p)$T and ${}^4$He($\gamma ,n)$${}^3$He Reactions with Linearly Polarized Photons in the Energy Range up to 100\,MeV

   Yu.P.Lyakhno

   In a number of investigations, one can find the data on the ${}^4$He($\gamma$,p)T and ${}^4$He($\gamma$,n)${}^3$He reaction cross sections in the collinear geometry, which are due to spin {\it S}=1 transitions of the final-state particles. The ratio of the differential cross section in the collinear geometry to the differential reaction cross section at the nucleon emission angle ${\theta }_N$=90${}^{\circ }$, and specified by the {\it S}=0 electric dipole transition at photon energies in the range 20$\le E_{\gamma }\le$100\,MeV, is independent of the photon energy, within the experimental error. In the meantime, experiments were made to measure the asymmetry of the cross section $\Sigma ({\theta }_N)$, for the mentioned reactions with linearly polarized photons. It has been found that in the energy range between 20 and 90\,MeV, the $\Sigma ({\theta }_N)$ value is also independent of the photon energy, within the experimental error. These data are in agreement with the assumption that transitions with spin {\it S}=1 can be due to the contribution of ${}^3{P}_0$ states of the ${}^4$He nucleus, and are inconsistent with the assumption that the spin-flip of the particle system occurred during the reaction as a result of the meson exchange current contribution. The available measured data on the collinear geometry reaction cross sections and the ones on the cross-section asymmetry of the reaction with linearly polarized photons do not agree between themselves. The above mentioned reactions seem to be more convenient for measuring the degree of photon beams linear polarization than the deuteron photodisintegration reactions.

   nucl-exnucl-th0 citations

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