Nuclear Astrophysical Reaction Studies Using Heavy Ion Storage Rings.

The newly commissioned CRYRING is an ultra-low--energy heavy ion storage ring that is capable of storing ions down to 100 keV/A and even lower. In particular, in the next few years, the proton capture measurement program at the ESR ring will shed light on p-nuclei and the I rp- i process while the program at CRYRING will investigate nova explosions and electron screening effects in quiescent scenarios. This source was designed to investigate ion-ion collision for atomic physics research. [Extracted from the article]