Direct determination of the 11C(α, p)14N reaction rate with CRIB: An alternative synthesis path to the CNO elements

Abstract

We reported new results on the first direct measurement of the 11C(α, p)14N reaction, which is considered to be part of an alternative pathway responsible for the nucleosynthesis from the pp-chain region to the CNO cycle region in high-temperature hydrogen burning processes. We successfully measured the excitation functions at stellar energies both for (α, p0), (α, p1) and (α, p2) separately for the first time.© Copyright owned by the author(s).