Measurement of 73Ge(n,γ) cross sections and implications for stellar nucleosynthesis
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Elsevier Inc.
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Nucleosynthesis Neutron capture Germanium
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2019Referencia bibliográfica
Lederer-Woods, C., Battino, U., Ferreira, P., Gawlik, A., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., ... & Tattersall, A. (2019). Measurement of 73Ge (n, γ) cross sections and implications for stellar nucleosynthesis. Physics letters B, 790, 458-465.
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This work was supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (J3503), the Adolf Messer Foundation (Germany), the UK Science and Facilities Council (ST/M006085/1), and the European Research Council ERC-2015-StG Nr.677497.Resumen
73Ge(n, γ) cross sections were measured at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN up to neutron energies of 300keV, providing for the first time experimental data above 8keV. Results indicate that the stellar cross section at kT=30keV is 1.5 to 1.7 times higher than most theoretical predictions. The new cross sections result in a substantial decrease of 73Ge produced in stars, which would explain the low isotopic abundance of 73Ge in the solar system.