Published May 9, 2014
| Version v1
Journal article
The Trojan Horse method for nuclear astrophysics: Recent results for direct reactions
Creators
- 1. Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Catania, Italy and Università degli Studi di Enna Kore, Enna (Italy)
- 2. Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Catania, Italy and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Catania (Italy)
- 3. Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Catania (Italy)
- 4. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Catania (Italy)
Description
The Trojan Horse method is a powerful indirect technique to determine the astrophysical factor for binary rearrangement processes A+x→b+B at astrophysical energies by measuring the cross section for the Trojan Horse (TH) reaction A+a→B+b+s in quasi free kinematics. The Trojan Horse Method has been successfully applied to many reactions of astrophysical interest, both direct and resonant. In this paper, we will focus on direct sub-processes. The theory of the THM for direct binary reactions will be shortly presented based on a few-body approach that takes into account the off-energy-shell effects and initial and final state interactions. Examples of recent results will be presented to demonstrate how THM works experimentally
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.4875311;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 1595
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 200-207
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- 7. European summer school on experimental nuclear astrophysics
- Dates
- 15-17 Sep 2013
- Place
- Santa Tecla, Sicily (Italy)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45101748
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ASTROPHYSICS; CALCULATION METHODS; CROSS SECTIONS; DIRECT REACTIONS; FINAL-STATE INTERACTIONS; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; SPECTROSCOPIC FACTORS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; INTERACTIONS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PHYSICS; SYNTHESIS
Optional Information
- Notes
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