Coulomb dissociation of P 27 at 500 MeV/u

J. Marganiec et al. ; 15 págs.; 14 figs.; 6 tabs.
The proton-capture reaction Si26(p,γ)P27 was studied via Coulomb dissociation (CD) of P27 at an incident energy of about 500 MeV/u. The three lowest-lying resonances in P27 have been populated and their resonance strengths have been measured. In addition, a nonresonant direct-capture component was clearly identified and its astrophysical S factor measured. The experimental results are compared to Monte Carlo simulations of the CD process using a semiclassical model. Our thermonuclear reaction rates show good agreement with the rates from a recent compilation. With respect to the nuclear structure of P27 we have found evidence for a negative-parity intruder state at 2.88-MeV excitation energy. ©2016 American Physical Society
This project was supported by BMBF, EU(EURONS), EMMI, GSI Darmstadt, FIAS, NAVI, GSI-TU Darmstadt cooperation, and HIC for FAIR. S.T. was supported by the Helmholtz Association (HGF) through the Nuclear Astrophysics Virtual Institute (VH-VI-417). C.L. acknowledges support from JINA-CEE under Grants No. PHY-1430152 and No. PHY-0822648 of the National Science Foundation. S.B.N. and the University of Santiago de Compostela group acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion, under Grants No. FPU-AP2006-01474, No. FPA2012-39404-C02- 01, and No. FPA2013-47831-C2-1 and from Xunta de Galicia under Grant No. GRC2013-11.