1. Measurement of the Ce 140 (n,y) cross section at n_TOF and its astrophysical implications for the chemical evolution of the universe
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Amaducci, Simone, Colonna, Nicola, Cosentino, Luigi, Cristallo, Sergio, Finocchiaro, Paolo, Krticka, Milan, Massimi, Cristian, Mastromarco, Mario, Mazzone, Annamaria, Maugeri, Emilio Andrea, Mengoni, Alberto, Roederer, Ian U., Straniero, Oscar, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Casanovas Hoste, Adrià, Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ANT - Advanced Nuclear Technologies Research Group, Amaducci, Simone, Colonna, Nicola, Cosentino, Luigi, Cristallo, Sergio, Finocchiaro, Paolo, Krticka, Milan, Massimi, Cristian, Mastromarco, Mario, Mazzone, Annamaria, Maugeri, Emilio Andrea, Mengoni, Alberto, Roederer, Ian U., Straniero, Oscar, Calviño Tavares, Francisco, Casanovas Hoste, Adrià, and Cortés Rossell, Guillem Pere
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140 Ce (n, y) is a key reaction for slow neutron-capture (s-process) nucleosynthesis due to being a bottleneck in the reaction flow. For this reason, it was measured with high accuracy (uncertainty˜5%) at the n_TOF facility, with an unprecedented combination of a high purity sample and low neutron-sensitivity detectors. The measured Maxwellian averaged cross section is up to 40% higher than previously accepted values. Stellar model calculations indicate a reduction around 20% of the s-process contribution to the Galactic cerium abundance and smaller sizeable differences for most of the heavier elements. No variations are found in the nucleosynthesis from massive stars., I.U.R. acknowledges support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grants No. AST 1613536, No. AST 1815403/1815767, No. AST 2205847, and No. PHY1430152—Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics—Chemical Evolution of the Elements). S.C. acknowledges funding by the European Union—NextGenerationEU RFFM4C2 1.1 PRIN 2022 project “2022RJLWHN URKA” and by INAF Theory Grant “Understanding R-process & Kilonovae Aspects (URKA).” The authors acknowledge support from the MSMT of the Czech Republic, the Charles University UNCE/SCI/013 project, and by the funding agencies of the participating institutes. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this Letter., Article signat per 141 autors/es: S. Amaducci, N. Colonna, L. Cosentino, S. Cristallo, P. Finocchiaro, M. Krtička, C. Massimi, M. Mastromarco, A. Mazzone, E. A. Maugeri, A. Mengoni, I. U. Roederer, O. Straniero, S. Valenta, D. Vescovi, O. Aberle, V. Alcayne, J. Andrzejewski, L. Audouin, V. Babiano-Suarez, M. Bacak, M. Barbagallo, S. Bennett, E. Berthoumieux, J. Billowes, D. Bosnar, A. Brown, M. Busso, M. Caamaño, L. Caballero-Ontanaya, F. Calviño, M. Calviani, D. Cano-Ott, A. Casanovas, F. Cerutti, E. Chiaveri, G. Cortés, M. A. Cortés-Giraldo, L. A. Damone, P. J. Davies, M. Diakaki, M. Dietz, C. Domingo-Pardo, R. Dressler, Q. Ducasse, E. Dupont, I. Durán, Z. Eleme, B. Fernández-Domínguez, A. Ferrari, V. Furman, K. Göbel, R. Garg, A. Gawlik-Ramięga, S. Gilardoni, I. F. Gonçalves, E. González-Romero, C. Guerrero, F. Gunsing, H. Harada, S. Heinitz, J. Heyse, D. G. Jenkins, A. Junghans, F. Käppeler, Y. Kadi, A. Kimura, I. Knapová, M. Kokkoris, Y. Kopatch, D. Kurtulgil, I. Ladarescu, C. Lederer-Woods, H. Leeb, J. Lerendegui-Marco, S. J. Lonsdale, D. Macina, A. Manna, T. Martínez, A. Masi, P. Mastinu, E. Mendoza, V. Michalopoulou, P. M. Milazzo, F. Mingrone, J. Moreno-Soto, A. Musumarra, A. Negret, R. Nolte, F. Ogállar, A. Oprea, N. Patronis, A. Pavlik, J. Perkowski, C. Petrone, L. Piersanti, E. Pirovano, I. Porras, J. Praena, J. M. Quesada, D. Ramos-Doval, T. Rauscher, R. Reifarth, D. Rochman, C. Rubbia, M. Sabat ́e-Gilarte, A. Saxena, P. Schillebeeckx, D. Schumann, A. Sekhar, A. G. Smith, N. V. Sosnin, P. Sprung, A. Stamatopoulos, G. Tagliente, J. L. Tain, A. Tarifeño-Saldivia, L. Tassan-Got, Th. Thomas, P. Torres-Sánchez, A. Tsinganis, J. Ulrich, S. Urlass, G. Vannini, V. Variale, P. Vaz, A. Ventura, V. Vlachoudis, R. Vlastou, A. Wallner, P. J. Woods, T. Wright, P.Žugec, Postprint (published version)
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- 2024