R-matrix Methods with an application to 12C(alpha,gamma)16O

Abstract

We review some aspects of R-matrix theory and its application to the semi-empirical analysis of nuclear reactions. Important applications for nuclear astrophysics and recent results for the ${}^{12}\mathrm{C}(\alpha ,\gamma ){}^{16}\mathrm{O}$ reaction are emphasized.

Comments: 7 pages. Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, Santa Tecla, Sicily, Italy, 20-27 September 2009, Editors Claudio Spitaleri, Claus Rolfs, and Rosario Gianluca Pizzone, AIP Conference Proceedings number 1213 (AIP, New York, 2010), pp. 35-41