Measurement of 25Al+p resonant elastic scattering for studying the 25Al(p,γ)26Si

Abstract

Proton resonant states in 26Si have been studied by the resonant elastic scattering of 25Al+p with a 25Al radioactive ion beam at 2.863 MeV/nucleon bombarding a thick H2 gas target with the inverse kinematics method at the low-energy RI beam facility CRIB (CNS Radioactive Ion Beam separator), University of Tokyo. The properties of these resonance states are important to better determine the production rates of 25Al(p,γ)26Si reaction, which is one of the astrophysically important nuclear reactions to understand the production of the ground state of 26Al, the emitter of its characteristic 1.809-MeV gamma-ray, under the explosive stellar environments such as novae and X-ray bursts. In this work, several resonances above the proton threshold level have been observed with a high statistics and background free through a covered the range of excitation energies from Ex ∼ 6.8 to 8.2 MeV.