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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 5: Nuclear Astrophysics I

HK 5.1: Group Report

Monday, March 27, 2017, 16:45–17:15, F 33

Nuclear Astrophysics Experiments in Cologne — •Philipp Scholz, Julia Becker, Felix Heim, Jan Mayer, Mark Spieker, and Andreas Zilges — Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne

Nuclear reaction cross sections are one of the main ingredients for the understanding of nucleosynthesis processes in stellar environments. For isotopes heavier than those in the iron-peak region, reaction rates are often calculated using the Hauser-Feshbach statistical model. The accuracy of the predicted cross sections strongly depend on the uncertainties of the nuclear-physics input-parameters. These are nuclear-level densities, γ-strength functions, and particle+nucleus optical-model potentials.

The precise measurement of total and partial reaction cross sections at sub-Coulomb energies and their comparison to statistical model calculations are used to constrain or exclude different nuclear-physics models.

This talk is going to introduce experimental methods and present recent experiments performed at the Cologne 10 MV FN-Tandem accelerator and the high-efficiency HORUS γ-ray spectrometer.

Supported by the DFG (ZI 510/8-1) and the "ULDETIS" project within the UoC Excellence Initiative institutional strategy. P.S. and J.M. are supported by the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy.