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New Measurement of 12C+ 12C Fusion Reaction at Astrophysical Energies

Published: May 2020 Wiescher

Lead Author(s): W.P. Tan

¹²C+¹²C fusion is important for understanding the late phases of stellar evolution as well as the ignition and nucleosynthesis in cataclysmic binary systems such as type Ia supernovae and x-ray superbursts. A new measurement of this reaction has been performed at the University of Notre Dame using particle-γ coincidence techquies with SAND (a silicon detector array) at the high-intensity 5U Pelletron accelerator. Learn more

Publication: New Measurement of ¹²C+¹²C Fusion Reaction at Astrophysical Energies