New aspects of the Hadron and Astro/Nuclear Physics

Session

Nuclear Astrophysics II

7 Nov 2018, 11:10

National University of Uzbekistan

8. Nuclear astrophysics and resonant reactions: exploring the threshold region with the Trojan Horse Method

Dr Marco La Cognata (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

07/11/2018, 11:10

Resonant reactions play an important role in astrophysics as they might significantly enhance the cross section with respect to the direct reaction contribution and alter the nucleosynthetic flow. Moreover, resonances bear information about states in the intermediate compound nucleus formed in the reaction. However, nuclear reactions in stars take place at energies well below ∼1 MeV and the...

6. Probing the Early Universe through nuclear physics

Dr Rosario Pizzone (Dr.)

07/11/2018, 11:50

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) requires several nuclear physics inputs and nuclear reaction rates. An up-to-date compilation of direct cross sections of d(d,p)t, d(d,n)3He and 3He(d,p)4He reactions is given, being these ones among the most uncertain bare-nucleus cross sections. An intense experimental effort has been carried on in the last decade to apply the Trojan Horse Method (THM) to study...