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Production Of ~(10)C Secondary Beam And Astrophysical Reaction Rates Of The ~8Li(p,γ)~9Beg.s. Direct Capture Reaction.

Posted on:2007-11-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J SuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120360242458669Subject:Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics
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In the evolution of the universe, nuclear process plays a pivotal role for both energy production and nucleosythesis. Nuclear astrophysics, which combines astrophysics and nuclear physics, has been developed in the twentieth century. Lots of nuclear reactions induced by unstable nuclei are very important in nuclear astrophysics. These reactions can not be investigated by traditionary stable beam nuclear experiments, while a new technology, radioactive nuclear beam(RNB) makes it possible.The standard big-bang model(SM), which assumes a homogeneous isotropic early universe, has proven to be very successful for predicting the primordial abundances of the light elements up to 7Li, but it does not produce significant yields beyond A =7 because of the particle instability gap at A—8. However, the inhomogeneous models(IMs) allow a higher production of A > 7 nuclides because the IMs assume a universe with regions of high-density proton-rich material surrounded by those of low-density neutron-rich one. In these inhomogeneous environments, unstable isotopes can be generated to open up more reaction pathways to the heavier nuclides. Among them, the 8Li(α,n)11B reaction plays a crucial role in bridging the A = 8 gap. Since the synthesis of the heavier nuclides via 8Li scales with the 8Li abundance during primordial nucleosynthesis, all the reactions which create or destroy 8Li are important in the IMs . The 8Li(p,γ)9Beg.s. reaction is of importance because it not only destroys 8Li but also leads to the production of 9Be, which serves as a precursor to heavier nuclides. Moreover, 8Li(p,γ)9Beg.s. is involved in the extend reaction network for the r-process nucleosynthesis of type II supernove.In present work, the single particle spectroscopic factor for the ground state of 9Be=8Li(?)p was extracted from the 8Li(d,n)9Beg.s. angular distribution, based on distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) analysis. We then deduced the astrophysical S-factors and reaction rates of the 8Li(p,γ)9Beg.s. direct capture reaction at energies of astrophysical interest. Some reactions induced by unstable nucleus 10C are involved in the reaction network of the primordial nucleosynthesis. For investigating these reactions , a 10C beam is produced via the 10B(p, n)10C reaction in inverse kinematics on the secondary beam line of the HI-13 tandem accelerator at China Institute of Atomic Energy. The purity of the collimated 10C beam is better than 90% after the magnetic and velocity selection. The beam energy is (55.9±0.9) MeV and the intensity is about 6 s-1·pnA-1.
Keywords/Search Tags:Radioactive nuclear beam, Spectroscopic factor, Astrophysical reaction rate
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