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KADoNiS-: The astrophysical -process database
The KADoNiS- project is an online database for cross sections relevant to
the -process. All existing experimental data was collected and reviewed.
With this contribution a user-friendly database using the KADoNiS (Karlsruhe
Astrophysical Database of Nucleosynthesis in Stars) framework is launched,
including all available experimental data from (p,), (p,n),
(p,), (,), (,n) and (,p) reactions in
or close to the respective Gamow window with cut-off date of August 2012
(www.kadonis.org/pprocess).Comment: Proceedings Nuclear Data Conference 2013, published in Nuclear Data
Sheets 120 (2014) 19
Neutron activation of natural zinc samples at kT = 25 keV
The neutron-capture cross sections of 64Zn, 68Zn, and 70Zn have been measured
with the activation technique in a quasistellar neutron spectrum corresponding
to a thermal energy of kT = 25 keV. By a series of repeated irradiations with
different experimental conditions, an uncertainty of 3% could be achieved for
the 64Zn(n,g)65Zn cross section and for the partial cross section
68Zn(n,g)69Zn-m feeding the isomeric state in 69Zn. For the partial cross
sections 70Zn(n,g)71Zn-m and 70Zn(n,g)71Zn-g, which had not been measured so
far, uncertainties of only 16% and 6% could be reached because of limited
counting statistics and decay intensities. Compared to previous measurements on
64,68Zn, the uncertainties could be significantly improved, while the 70Zn
cross section was found to be two times smaller than existing model
calculations. From these results Maxwellian average cross sections were
determined between 5 and 100 keV. Additionally, the beta-decay half-life of
71Zn-m could be determined with significantly improved accuracy. The
consequences of these data have been studied by network calculations for
convective core He burning and convective shell C burning in massive stars
Stellar neutron capture cross sections of ⁴¹K and ⁴⁵Sc
The neutron capture cross sections of light nuclei (
New Stellar Cross Sections and The "Karlsruhe Astrophysical Database of Nucleosynthesis in Stars"
Since April 2005 a regularly updated stellar neutron cross section
compilation is available online at http://nuclear-astrophysics.fzk.de/kadonis.
This online-database is called the "Karlsruhe Astrophysical Database of
Nucleosynthesis in Stars" project and is based on the previous Bao et al.
compilation from the year 2000. The present version \textsc{KADoNiS} v0.2
(January 2007) includes recommended cross sections for 280 isotopes between
H and Po and 75 semi-empirical estimates for isotopes without
experimental information. Concerning stellar cross sections of the
32 stable, proton-rich isotopes produced by the process experimental
information is only available for 20 isotopes, but 9 of them have rather large
uncertainties of 9%. The first part of a systematic study of stellar
cross sections of the -process isotopes Se, Sr,
Pd, Te, Ba, Ba, Dy, and Hf is
presented. In another application \textsc{KADoNiS} v0.2 was used for an
modification of a reaction library of Basel university. With this modified
library -process network calculations were carried out and compared to
previous results.Comment: Proceedings "International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and
Technology 2007", Nice/ Franc
Stellar neutron capture cross sections of ²⁰ ²¹ ²²Ne
The stellar (n,γ) cross sections of the Ne isotopes are important for a number of astrophysical quests, i.e., for the interpretation of abundance patterns in presolar material or with respect to the s-process neutron balance in red giant stars. This paper presents resonance studies of experimental data in the keV range, which had not been fully analyzed before. The analyses were carried out with the R-matrix code sammy. With these results for the resonant part and by adding the components due to direct radiative capture, improved Maxwellian-averaged cross sections (MACS) could be determined. At kT=30keV thermal energy we obtain MACS values of 240±29,1263±160, and 53.2±2.7 μbarn for ²⁰Ne,²¹Ne, and ²²Ne, respectively. In earlier work the stellar rates of ²⁰Ne and ²¹Ne had been grossly overestimated. ²²Ne and ²⁰Ne are significant neutron poisons for the s process in stars because their very small MACS values are compensated by their large abundances
Opportunities for Nuclear Astrophysics at FRANZ
The "Frankfurter Neutronenquelle am Stern-Gerlach-Zentrum" (FRANZ), which is
currently under development, will be the strongest neutron source in the
astrophysically interesting energy region in the world. It will be about three
orders of magnitude more intense than the well-established neutron source at
the Research Center Karlsruhe (FZK)
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