1. New measurement of the $E_{\mathrm{c.m.}}=323$ keV resonance in the $^{19}$F$($p,γ$)$^{20}$Ne reaction
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Williams, M., Adsley, P., Davids, B., Greife, U., Hutcheon, D., Karpesky, J., Lennarz, A., Lovely, M., and Ruiz, C.
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FOS: Physical sciences ,Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) - Abstract
At temperatures below 0.1 GK the $^{19}$F$(p,γ)^{20}$Ne reaction is the only breakout path out of the CNO cycle. Experimental studies of this reaction are challenging from a technical perspective due to copious $γ$-ray background from the far stronger $^{19}$F$(p,α)^{16}$O reaction channel. Here we present the first inverse kinematics study of the $^{19}$F$(p,γ)^{20}$Ne reaction, in which we measure the strength of the 323-keV resonance. We find a strength value of $ωγ= 3.3^{+1.1}_{-0.9}$ meV, which is a factor of two larger than the most recent previous study. The discrepancy is likely the result of a direct to ground state transition which previous studies were not sensitive to. We also observe the transition to the first $2^{-}$ state, which has not been observed for this resonance in previous studies. A new thermonuclear reaction rate is calculated and compared with the literature., arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1910.01698
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- 2022
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