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Low-lying level structure of 56Cu and its implications to the rp process

Published: May 2017 Aprahamian

Lead Author(s): W.-J. Ong

The low-lying energy levels of proton-rich ⁵⁶Cu have been extracted using in-beam γ-ray spectroscopy with the state-of-the-art γ-ray tracking array GRETINA in conjuction with the S800 spectrograph at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State Universty. Excited states in ⁵⁶Cu serve as resonances in the ⁵⁵Ni(p,γ)⁵⁶Cu reaction, which is a part of the rp process in type-I X-ray bursts. Learn more

Publication: Low-lying level structure of ⁵⁶Cu and its implications to the rp process