Published January 28, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Activation Experiments for Nuclear Astrophysics

  • 1. Institut fuer Kernphysik, TU Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, D-64289 Darmstadt (Germany)
  • 2. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Universitaet zu Koeln, Zuelpicher Str. 77, D-50937 Cologne (Germany)

Description

The study of (γ,n) reactions can be used to constrain the theoretical predictions of the neutron capture cross sections of short-lived branching points in the s process. The usability of the activation technique to study these (γ,n) reactions is discussed as one example of an activation experiment in nuclear astrophysics. Two photon sources using bremsstrahlung and laser-Compton backscattered photons where such experiments were carried out are compared.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1090
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 481-485
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
13. international symposium on capture gamma-ray spectroscopy and related topics
Dates
25-29 Aug 2008
Place
Cologne (Germany)

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(c) 2009 American Institute of Physics