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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 5: Nuclear Astrophysics

HK 5.1: Group Report

Monday, August 30, 2021, 16:30–17:00, H4

Investigation of nuclear physics properties for p process nucleosynthesis — •Martin Müller, Felix Heim, Yanzhao Wang, Svenja Wilden, and Andreas Zilges — Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne

More than 60 years after the ground breaking paper by Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler and Hoyle [1] many questions about the nucleosynthesis of neutron deficient nuclei in the p process remain unsolved. While the number of p nuclei is small, the number of reactions involved in their production is extremely large, necessitating a detailed and precise theoretical description. This talk will provide a brief overview of our group’s contributions to the experimental determination of nuclear cross sections as well as studies of the underlying nuclear physics parameters such as the γ-ray strength function, the nuclear level density and the α-optical model potential. Recent experiments on proton- and α-induced reactions along with comprehensive comparisons with statistical model calculations will be presented [2-5].

Supported by the DFG (ZI 510/9-1).

[1] E. Burbidge et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 29, 547 (1957)

[2] P. Scholz et al., Phys. Rev. C 101, 045806 (2020)

[3] F. Heim et al., Phys. Rev. C 103, 025805 (2021)

[4] F. Heim et al., Phys. Rev. C 103, 055803 (2021)

[5] F. Heim et al., Phys. Rev. C 103, 054613 (2021)