恒星氦燃烧关键反应12C(α,γ)16O天体物理S因子及其反应率

恒星氦燃烧阶段3α反应和12C（α,γ）16O反应相互竞争,两者的反应率共同决定了氦燃烧结束后12C与16O的丰度比,该比值是大质量恒星后继演化以及伴随的元素核合成过程的初始条件。目前,氦燃烧12C（α,γ）16O反应起始T₉=0.2处,天体物理模型要求的反应率的精确度要低于10%,然而尚未有实验或理论给出满足要求的结果。最为直接和可靠地获取12C（α,γ）16O反应率的方法,就是尽可能往低能区测量其天体物理S因子,然后通过理论外推到感兴趣的能区。为此基于经典的R-矩阵理论,建立了适用于低能核反应的多道、多能级的约化R-矩阵理论来拟合几乎所有可用的16O系统的实验数据。配合使用协方差统计和误差传播理论,拟合外推得到了客观的、内部自恰的和唯一性好的12C（α,γ）16O反应天体物理S因子。总的外推S因子STOT（0.3 MeV）=162.7±7.3 keV·b,理论上首次给出达到恒星演化与元素核合成模型的最低要求的S因子。基于计算给出的全能区的S因子,数值积分给出了温度位于0.04 6 T₉ 6 10的12C（α,γ）16O天体物理反应率。在T₉=0.2处,推荐的反应率为（7.83 ±0.35）×10-15 cm3mol-1s-1。During stellar helium burning, the rates of 3α and the 12C(α,γ)16O reaction, in competition with one another, determine the relative abundances of 12C and 16O in a massive star. The abundance ratio is the beginning condition of the following nucleosynthesis and star evolution of massive stars, which are extremely sensitive to the rate of 12C(α,γ)16O reaction at T₉=0.2. The most direct and trustworthy way to obtain the reaction rate of the 12C(α,γ)16O reaction is to measure the S factor for that reaction to as low energy as possible, and to extrapolate to energies of astrophysical interest. Based on a new multilevel and multichannel reduced R-matrix theory for applications in nuclear astrophysics, we have obtained an accurate and self-consistent astrophysical S factor of 12C(α,γ)16O, by a global fitting for almost all available experimental data of 16O system, with the coordination of covariance statistics and error-propagation theory. The extrapolated S factor of 12C(α,γ)16O was obtained with a recommended value STOT (0.3 MeV)=162.7±7.3 keV·b. And the reaction rates of 12C(α,γ)16O for stellar temperatures between 0.04 6 T₉ 6 10 are provided. At T₉=0.2, the reaction rate is (7.83 ±0.35)×10-15 cm3mol-1s-1, where stellar helium burning occurs.     

20Mgβ衰变谱学与15O(α,γ)19Ne反应(英文)

15O（α,γ）19Ne（p,γ）20Na反应链是高温CNO循环向快速质子俘获过程突破的一条关键路径,相关的反应率输入量可通过20Mg的β衰变可布居19Ne共振态并测量其衰变性质来获得。通过高效率高精度地测量20Mg β衰变中产生的质子与γ射线得到了20Mg衰变的详细信息,并构建了完整的衰变纲图,还进行了19Ne 4 033 keV共振态衰变性质的探索,获得了该态在20Mg β衰变中被布居的分支比上限。通过比20Mg和20O镜像能级跃迁的结果确认了同位旋非对称性,为检验相关理论模型提供了精确的实验数据。对于突破路径中有重要影响的19Ne 4 033 keV共振态的性质,有待更高统计的实验进一步研究。The breakout from the hot CNO cycle to the rapid proton capture process can occur via the 15O(α,γ)19Ne(p,γ)20Na reaction sequence, and the β decay of 20Mg can be used as an alternative method to characterize some specific resonances, which will provide detailed nuclear structure input for reaction rate calculations. The reliable information on the decay properties and structure of 20Mg was obtained by measuring the emitted particles and γ-rays in the β decay with high efficiency and high resolution. Attempt was also made to search for the decay channels associated with the 4 033 keV resonance in 19Ne. To test fundamental symmetries, the transitions in the mirror decays of 20Mg and 20O were compared. The precise experimental data presented here would be important to constrain the theoretical calculations. It is desirable to clarify the astrophysically relevant problem by further experiments with improved statistics on the basis of the present work.     

95Zr(n,γ)96Zr的间接测量

95Zr（n,γ）96Zr是稳定燃烧的恒星中合成96Zr的唯一途径,对研究恒星演化和重元素合成具有重要的意义。由于95Zr半衰期为64 d,直接测量95Zr（n,γ）96Zr截面极为困难,因此,本工作采用替代比率法间接测量95Zr（n,γ）96Zr截面。本工作测量了94Zr（18O,16Oγ）96Zr和90Zr（18O,16Oγ）92Zr反应,得到了复合核96Zr*和90Zr*衰变到γ道的几率比,并利用截面已知的91Zr（n,γ）92Zr截面乘以实验所测比率,得到了E_n=0~8 MeV能区的95Zr（n,γ）96Zr中子俘获截面。95Zr(n, γ)96Zr cross section is important for the study of stellar evolution and heavy elements nucleosynthesis because the reaction is the only way to produce the 96Zr in Asymptotic giant branch stars. The direct measurement of 95Zr(n, γ)96Zr is very difficult due to the short half-life of 95Zr, 64 days. The surrogate ratio method was carried out to measure 95Zr(n, γ)96Zr cross sections. We measured the 94Zr(18O, 16Oγ)96Zr and 90Zr(18O, 16Oγ)92Zr reactions and obtained the γ-decay probability ratio of compound nuclei 96Zr* and 92Zr*. The 95Zr(n, γ)96Zr cross section is determined by the obtained ratio multiplying the known 91Zr(n, γ)92Zr cross section at E_n=0~8 MeV.     

Study of proton resonances in ~(18)Ne via resonant elastic scattering of ~(17)F+p and its astrophysical implication

The proton resonant properties in 18Ne, which determine the reaction rate of the key stellar 14O(α,p)17F reaction, have been studied by using a technique of proton resonant elastic scattering of 17F+p. A 4.22 MeV/nucleon 17F radioactive ion (RI) beam was produced via a projectile-fragmentation reaction, and separated by a Radioactive Ion Beam Line in Lanzhou (RIBLL). By bombarding a thick (CH2)n target, the energy spectra of the recoiled protons were measured by two ΔE-E silicon telescopes at the center-of-...     

50 keV/u Ne8+与CO转移电离反应中分子轴取向效应测量

利用反应显微成像谱仪,研究了50 keV/u Ne8+碰撞CO转移电离反应中生成的CO2+碎裂过程。通过重构分子离子爆炸碎片C+和O+的三维动量,获得了质心系中CO2+碎裂过程中释放的动能（KER）。在KER谱中发现了来自亚稳态1Σ+,1Π,3Π解离的峰、3Σ+态解离的峰和1Σ_（II）+态解离的峰,同时发现了排斥态3Σ-的贡献。在3Σ-态解离的分子轴取向分布中,首次观测到CO2+解离的分子轴取向效应。The fragmentations of CO2+ are studied in transfer ionization processes of 50 keV/u Ne8+ impact on CO with reaction microscopes. The 3D momenta of C+ and O+ were measured, and the kinetic energy release (KER) of dissociative(CO2+) was obtained accordingly. The peaks resulted from the metastable states of 1Σ+, 1Π and 3Π, of 3Σ+, and of 1Σ(II)+ are identified in KER spectrum. Meanwhile, the repulsive state of 3Σ- was also observed, which forms a broad peak lying between the peaks of 3Σ+ and 1Σ(II)+. In the CO2+ dissociations from 3Σ- state, the orientation effect of CO molecular axis was observed for the first time.     

Astrophysical ~(22)Mg(p,γ)~(23)Al reaction rates from asymptotic normalization coefficient of ~(23)Ne→~(22)Ne+n

The radionuclide ~(22)Na generates the emission of a characteristic 1.275 MeV γ-ray. This is a potential astronomical observable, whose occurrence is suspected in classical novae. The ~(22)Mg(p, γ)~(23)Al reaction is relevant to the nucleosynthesis of ~(22)Na in Ne-rich novae. In this study, employing the adiabatic distorted wave approximation and continuum discretized coupled channel methods, the squared neutron asymptotic normalization coefficients(ANCs)231 for the virtual decay of Ne → ~(22)Ne + n were extracted, and determined as(0.483 ± 0.060) fm~(-1) and(9.7 ± 2.3) fm~(-1) for the ground state and the first excited state from the experimental angular distributions of ~(22)Ne(d, p)~(23)Ne populating the ground state and the first excited state of ~(23)Ne, respectively. Then, the squared proton ANC of ~(23)Al_(g.s.) was obtained as C_(d5/2)~(2)(~(23)Al)(2.65 ± 0.33) × 10~3 fm~(-1) according to the charge symmetry of the strong interaction. The astrophysical S-factors and reaction rates for the direct capture contribution in ~(22)Mg(p, γ)~(23)Al were also presented. Furthermore, the proton width of the first excited state of ~(23)Al was derived to be(57 ± 14) eV from the neutron ANC of its mirror state in ~(23)Ne and used to compute the contribution from the first resonance of ~(23)Al. This result demonstrates that the direct capture dominates the ~(22)Mg(p, γ)~(23)Al reaction at most temperatures of astrophysical relevance for 0.33 T_9 0.64.     

10Be中子谱因子的实验研究

核谱因子描述了单粒子轨道中核子的占有状态,在核结构和核天体物理中有重要的应用。目前国际上10Be中子谱因子的研究结果存在3倍左右的差异。本实验利用中国原子能科学研究院HI-13串列加速器的高灵敏度Q3D磁谱仪,对13C（9Be,10Be）12C反应角分布进行了精确测量。通过实验数据和扭曲波玻恩近似（DWBA）计算结果进行比较,导出了10Be的中子谱因子。该结果与转动不变壳模型理论及曾敏尔等的评价结果基本一致。利用该结果可以得到9Be（n,γ）10Be的天体物理反应率,评价该反应在相关天体环境中对CNO循环种子核12C的影响,为核结构和核天体物理提供可靠数据。Spectroscopic factor describes the overlap between the initial and final states and gives some information on the occupancy of a given single-particle orbiting around nuclear. It plays an important role in a variety of topics on nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics. Nowadays, several experiments have been performed to study the neutron spectroscopic factor of 10Be, but the results have a big difference with each other. In order to clarify this discrepancy, new measurement is highly needed. In this work, the angular distribution of 13C(9Be,10Be)12C reaction was measured at the Q3D magnetic spectrometer of the HI-13 tandem accelerator, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing. And then, the neutron spectroscopic factor of 10Be was derived by normalizing the calculational differential cross-sections with the distorted-wave Born approximation to the experimental data. The present value is in good agreement with that obtained by Tsang et al. and also in good agreement with that derived from translationary invariant shell model calculation. One can use this result to calculate the 9Be(n, γ)10Be reaction rates and calculate its influence to the production of 12C.     

17F + p 厚靶实验对18Ne共振态性质的研究

实验通过17F+p共振弹性散射研究了复合核18Ne激发态中与天体核反应14O(α, p)17F相关的共振态性质。利用兰州放射性束流线(RIBLL)对弹核碎裂反应产生的放射性束17F进行了分离和提纯。经过降能后,能量为4.22 AMeV 的17F束流轰击在T2终端的厚氢靶(CH₂)_n上。　两套∆E-E Si探测器望远镜放置在两个不同的探测角度θ_lab≈2.3°和14°上,对反冲质子的角度和能量进行了测量。实验观测到了复合核18Ne的几条质子共振能级。通过R-Matrix理论程序对激发函数进行拟合,得到了共振态的能量、 自旋、 宇称和衰变宽度等共振参数。Resonant properties in18Ne relevant to the stellar reaction of 14O(α, p)17F have been investigated through a resonant elastic scattering of 17F+p. The 17F RI beam was produced via a projectile fragmentation reaction, and subsequently separated and purified by Radioactive Ion beam Line in Lanzhou(RIBLL). After a series of energy degradation,a 4.22 AMeV 17F beam bombarded a thick(CH₂)_ntarget at T2 terminal. Energy and angle of the recoiled protons were measured by two sets of ∆E-E silicon telescope at θ_lab≈2.3°,14° respectively. Several resonances in 18Ne were observed,and their resonant parametersincluding energy,spin parity and decay width have been determined by an R-Matrix analysis of the experimental excitation function.     

替代反应法测量锕系核(n,f)和(n,xn)截面

对于某些中子反应截面,在直接测量上存在困难。为了获得那些对核能发展极其重要的核数据,人们提出替代反应法,即利用带电粒子代替中子进行反应,从而实现中子反应截面间接测量的方法。现有替代反应一般采用非弹激发、转移等周边反应,涉及的角动量远比中子反应的大,需要理论修正,这造成了一定的困难。有鉴于此,提出利用轻带电离子的俘获反应作为替代反应,其复合核自旋与中子反应的相当,有效避免了自旋修正的困难。根据这个思路,采用236U的（α,f）和（α,2n）反应作为替代反应,成功提取了239Pu的（n,f）和（n,2n）反应截面,与ENDFB7评价库数据在误差范围内符合较好,表明了替代反应法的优越性,可以在核数据测量中推广应用。There are always difficulties in the direct measurement of reactions induced by neutron, in order to obtain the neutron induced nuclear reaction data which are extremely important for nuclear power development, the surrogate reaction method, which uses charged particles instead of neutron, was proposed. The existing surrogate reaction method generally chooses peripheral reaction as the surrogate reaction, such as inelastic scattering excitation or transfer reaction. As a result, the angular momentum involved is always far larger than the neutron induced reaction, which causes difficulties in the theoretical calculation. Because of this, we proposed to use light-ion capture reaction as the surrogate reaction, the compound nuclei spin is similar with that of the neutron induced reaction, so that the difficulties in spin correction can be effectively avoided. Based on this idea, the 239Pu(n, f) and (n, 2n) reaction cross sections were successfully extracted using 236U(α,f) and (α,2n) reactions as the surrogate reaction. The results coincide well with the data of ENDFB7 within the error range, which shows that the surrogate reaction method has its own superiority, and it can be applied in the measurement of nuclear data.     

Studies on the Ne(p, d)Ne and Ne(d, p)Ne reactions

Angular distribution measurements have been performed on the ²¹Ne(p, d)²⁰Ne and ²¹Ne(d, p)²²Ne reactions at E_p = 20 MeV and E_d = 10.2 MeV, respectively. In the ²¹Ne(p, d) ²⁰Ne reaction, the prolific formation of the J^π = 2⁺, 1.63 MeV state was characterized by l_n = 2 pickup, and the distribution associated with the 4⁴, 4.25 MeV state was suggestive of a weak l_n = 2 pickup. All of the observed l_n = 1 pickup strength is associated with formation of the 2⁻, 4.97 MeV ²⁰Ne level. The ²¹Ne(d, p)²²Ne results indicate that l_n = 2 transfer is involved in the formation of the 1.28, 3.36, 5.52, 5.63 and 6.65 MeV ²²Ne states. The angular distribution observed for the 2⁺, 4.46 MeV state and also the unresolved 5.33, 5.36 MeV composite of states required both l_n = 0 and l_n = 2 components in the associated distorted-wave Born approximation fits. The spectroscopic factors extracted from the present results are compared with those predicted by the Nilsson model without mixing: Applications of the angular momentum projection rule to the ²¹Ne(d, p)²²Ne reaction are considered.     

利用强流ISOL束研究20Na的奇异衰变模式(英文)

北京放射性离子束装置（Beijing Radioactive Ion-beam Facility,BRIF）是基于在线同位素分离器技术的国家大科学平台。在BRIF装置上利用100 MeV的质子束轰击较厚的反应靶产生放射性核素;反应产物经离子源电离和在线分离,在线同位素分离段可引出100~300 keV的放射性核束,质量分辨率达20 000。在基金委科学仪器基础研究专项的支持下,建成了多用途的衰变实验终端,包括束流传输管道、通用靶室、带电粒子和γ探测器、集成电子学和数据获取系统等。利用100 MeV的质子束轰击MgO厚靶产生了流强高达1×105 pps的20Na放射性核束。通过高效率地同时测量β,γ和α,第一次直接观测到20Na非常稀有的β-γ-α衰变模式。Beijing Radioactive Ion-beam Facility(BRIF) has been commissioned as the national Radioactive Ion Beam(RIB) facility based on the Isotope Separator On Line(ISOL) technique since 2016. At BRIF, the radioactive nuclides are produced by the proton beam of 100 MeV bombarding a thick-target, the reaction products diffusing out of the target are ionized by an ion source and delivered to the online mass separator. In addition to the post-accelerated radioactive ion beams, BRIF can provide low-energy ISOL beams of 100 to 300 keV with a mass resolution of 20 000. A general-purpose decay station has been built including the ISOL beam transport line, a conventional reaction chamber, charge-particle and γ detectors with integrated electronics and data acquisition system. An intense 20Na ISOL beam up to 1×105 pps was produced by using the 100 MeV proton beam bombarding a MgO thick target. With high-efficiency measurements of β, γ and α simultaneously, very rare β-γ-α decay mode in 20Na has been directly observed for the first time in the present work.     

Projectile coulomb excitation of Ne and Ne

The static quadrupole moments of the first excited J^π = 2⁺ states in ²⁰Ne and ²²Ne and the reduced electric quadrupole transition probabilities of these states to the ground states were measured via projectile Coulomb excitation. The quadrupole moments were deduced from the shapes of γ-ray angular distributions. The results are: Q(²⁰Ne, 2⁺) = −0.20±0.05 b and Q(²²Ne, 2⁺) = −0.11±0.05 b. The transition strengths were deduced from yield measurements and by comparison with the yields of target γ-rays. The results are: B(E2; 0⁺ → 2⁺, ²⁰Ne) = 0.037±0.003 e² · b² and B(E2; 0⁺ → 2⁺, ²²Ne) = 0.025±0.002 e²· b². The results for the transition strengths are consistent with the results of accurate timing methods and resolve discrepancies between previous experiments. The results for the quadrupole moments are consistent with earlier measurements, although the mean values we obtain are slightly lower. The experimental measurements are compared with theoretical predictions and a detailed discussion is given of corrections to this type of reorientation experiment.     

Intermediate Energy Pion-20Ne Elastic Scattering in the α+16O Model of 20Ne

We present an analysis of π-²⁰Ne elastic scattering at intermediate energy basing on the α+¹⁶O model of the ²⁰Ne nucleus and in the framework of Glauber multiple scattering theory. Satisfactory agreement with the general features of the experimental data of pion elastic scattering on the neighboring 4N-type nuclei is obtained without any free parameters. Compared with the experimental angular distributions of pion elastic scattering on ¹²C, ¹⁶O, ²⁴Mg, and ²⁸Si nuclei, the diffractive patterns and the positions of the dips and peaks in the angular distributions of π-²⁰Ne elastic scattering are reasonably predicted by the calculations.     

COHERENT π0 PHOTOPRODUCTION IN THE QUASI-Δ33 DOORWAY STATE MODEL

The quasi-Δ, doorway state model, previously developed to describe pion-nucleus scattering, ^[1] is applied to the study of cohe-rent π photoproduction on nuclei.The unifying features of this approach for pion elastic scattering and photoproduction are briefly discussed. The relationship to W. Weise's isobar-hole model calculation and plane wave impulse approximation calculations are examined. The results are presented for ¹⁶O(γ, π⁰)¹⁶O and ¹²C(γ, π⁰)¹²C, and compared with the available experimental data. It has a large suppression of cross section from the impulse approximation prediction.     

重自共轭原子核中α凝聚体物理性质的理论研究(英文)

原子核多体系统中可以存在一类被称为α凝聚体的奇异物理态。该奇异态可以被视为玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚在原子核物理中的推广。一般认为,α凝聚体不仅可以存在于12C中,也可以存在于诸如16O,20Ne,24Mg,28Si等质量更重的自共轭原子核中。重自共轭原子核中的α凝聚体的物理性质是核结构理论重要的研究课题,相关理论计算可以为实验研究提供有益参考。主要介绍了该研究方向的基本理论框架,包括Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-Röpke波函数方法、Yamada-Schuck模型,以及近期提出的半解析近似方法。还讨论了α粒子间四体相互作用对α凝聚体物理性质的影响,并对α凝聚体破裂和一维α凝聚体等可能的研究方向做了简要论述。α condensates are exotic states in nuclear many-body systems, and can be viewed as the generalization of the Bose-Einstein condensate in nuclear physics. It is widely believed that, α condensates exist not only in 12C, but also in heavier self-conjugate nuclei such as 16O, 20Ne, 24Mg, 28Si, etc. It is important to understand the physical properties of these α condensates in heavy self-conjugate nuclei from the theoretical perspective, and the theoretical results could be a useful reference for the experimental studies. This work reviews the basic frameworks to study α condensates, including the Tohsaki-Horiuchi-Schuck-Röpke wave function, the Yamada-Schuck model, and the recently proposed semi-analytic approximation. The impacts of the four-body interactions of α particles on the physical properties of α condensates are reported. The breakup of α condensates and the one-dimensional α condensates are discussed briefly as the possible future directions in this field.