Few-Body Problems in Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics

The 3α-reaction is one of the key reactions in nuclear astrophysics. Since it is a three-body reaction direct measurement is impossible, and therefore the reaction rate must be estimated theoretically. In this contribution I will discuss uncertainties in this reaction rate both at very low temperatures, temperatures typical for Helium burning in red giant stars, and for very high temperatures.     

Nuclear Astrophysics from View Point of Few-Body Problems

Few-body systems provide very useful tools to solve different problems for nuclear astrophysics. This is the case of indirect techniques, developed to overcome some of the limits of direct measurements at astrophysical energies. Here the Coulomb dissociation, the asymptotic normalization coefficient and the Trojan Horse method are discussed.     

Nuclear Few-Body Physics at FAIR

The FAIR facility, to be constructed at the GSI site in Darmstadt, will be addressing a wealth of outstanding questions within the realm of subatomic, atomic and plasma physics through a combination of novel accelerators, storage rings and innovative experimental set-ups. One of the key installations is the fragment separator Super-FRS that will be able to deliver an unprecedented range of radioactive ion beams (RIBs) in the energy range of 0?C1.5?GeV/u to the envisaged experiments collected within the NuSTAR collaboration. This will in particular permit new experimental investigations of nuclear few-body systems at extreme isospins, also reaching beyond the drip-lines, using the NuSTAR-R³B set-up. The outcome of pilot experiments on unbound systems are reported, as well as crucial detector upgrades.     

我国核天体物理前沿研究进展

核天体物理是研究微观世界的核物理与研究宏观世界的天体物理融合形成的交叉学科,其主要研究目标是:宇宙中各种化学元素核合成的过程、时间、物理环境、天体场所及丰度分布;核反应（包括带电粒子、中子、光子及中微子引起的反应、β衰变及电子俘获）如何控制恒星的演化过程和结局。近十多年来获得的大量实验和理论研究使核天体物理研究进入了一个蓬勃发展的新阶段。文章总结了以兰州重离子加速器、北京串列加速器和国家天文台为基础,结合国际合作,在核天体物理研究领域对直接测量、间接测量、衰变测量、质量测量、理论计算、网络计算、天文观测等关键科学问题进行的研究进展。也展望了核天体物理的关键科学问题,这些关键问题包括:（1）在地面实验室、尤其是地下实验室开展天体物理能区重要热核反应截面的直接测量;（2）高能区带电粒子反应截面向天体物理能区的合理外推;（3）恒星平稳核燃烧阶段和爆发性天体事件中关键核反应截面的间接测量;（4）爆发性天体事件中所涉及的大量远离稳定线核素的质量、衰变特性和共振态性质的研究;（5）建立并不断完善核天体物理数据库,发展网络模拟程序,系统研究元素核合成的天体场所、丰度分布;（6）宇宙中铁以上元素的来源之谜。Nuclear astrophysics is an interdisciplinary research field. It composes of nuclear physics, which studies micro phenomena, and astrophysics which studies macroscopic phenomena in our world. The main research goals of nuclear astrophysics are:(1) how, when and where chemical elements are synthesized and what is their final abundance distribution in the universe; (2) how nuclear processes (reactions induced by charged particles, neutrons, photons and neutrinos, beta decays and electron capture processes) determine the evolution and the ultimate fate of stars. At present, nuclear astrophysics has been developed into a new prosperous stage with a huge number of experimental and theoretical progresses. This paper summarized the current progress of nuclear astrophysics in China, in the subfiels of direct and indirect measurement of key reactions, measurement of mass and decay, as well as the theoretical calculation and network simulation. In present paper, the prospects to solve the key scientific nuclear astrophysics problems are represented. These key problems include (1) direct measurement of important reactions at astrophysical energies in the laboratory on the earth surface and in the underground laboratory; (2)extrapolation of cross sections at higher energies for the reactions induced by charged particles; (3) indirect measurement of key reactions in the hydrostatic and explosive nuclear processes; (4) study of the mass, the properties of decay and resonant states for the nuclides far from the stability line in explosive astrophysical events; (5) establish and improve the database for nuclear astrophysics, and develop network simulation codes, and systematically study astrophysical sites and abundance distribution of nucleosynthesis; (6) origin of the elements heavier than iron in the universe.     

加速器质谱技术在核物理与天体物理中的应用

介绍了利用加速器质谱技术在核物理与核天体物理中的应用研究工作．包括放射性核素半衰期的测定、核反应截面的测量、超重元素的寻找、宇宙射线和太阳中微子性质等方面的研究工作.The application work which has been done and can be done in the nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics using accelerator mass spectrometry is reviewed. The half-life measurement of long-lived radio isotopes, cross section measurement of nuclear reaction, searching for super heavy elements, cosmic study and solar neutrino detection are the main components which have been discussed     

Asymptotic Normalization Constants in Nuclear Astrophysics

The indirect method of determining astrophysical nuclear reaction rates is discussed. The overall normalization of the astrophysical S-factor for such reactions may be determined from one quantity, the asymptotic normalization coefficient of the overlap function of the bound state wave functions for the initial and final channels. These coefficients can be found also from peripheral transfer reactions whose amplitudes are determined by the same overlap function as the amplitudes of the corresponding astrophysical radiative capture processes. The experimental test of this approach and the last results of S₁₇ measurements are presented.     

Nuclear Astrophysics with Radioactive Beams

Radioactive beams, either at low or high energy, can be very useful for understanding violent events which are encountered in nuclear astrophysics.     

Few-body Decay and Recombination in Nuclear Astrophysics

Three-body continuum problems are investigated for light nuclei of astrophysical relevance. We focus on three-body decays of resonances or recombination via resonances or the continuum background. The concepts of widths, decay mechanisms and dynamic evolution are discussed. We also discuss results for the triple ?? decay in connection with 2⁺ resonances and density and temperature dependence rates of recombination into light nuclei from ??-particles and neutrons.     

Transitions Between Rotational Nuclear Few-Body States in the Continuum

Continuum to continuum transitions are used to investigate the continuum properties of ⁸Be. The dependence of the cross section on the α?α potential and the rotational character of the ⁸Be energy spectrum are investigated.     

核天体物理实验研究概述

本文简要地评述了宇宙演化核素合成研究的新发展,介绍了核天体物理实验特征和目前及未来的实验装置与实验技术,最后讨论和展望了当前感兴趣的几个核天体物理实验研究的课题。 The current state of nuclear astrophysics has been briefly reviewed. Someexperimental features and some current and future experimental techniques in the field of nuclearastrophysics are introduced. Finally, a synopsis of some key topies with experimental interest isdescribed.     

The Few-Body Approximation in Nuclear,Atomic, and Molecular Physics

The quantum theory of few-body scattering based on Faddeev-Yakubovsky integral and differential equa¬tions is applied to calculations of various processes (elastic, inelastic, atom exchange, and dissociative) in nuclear, atomic, and molecular physics. Analytical solutions of these equations are presented for various limiting cases. The methods used for solving the integral and differential systems of equations are discussed.     

Large-Scale Shell Model for Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics Studies

The study of neutron-rich nuclei near 132Sn is interesting and important for both nuclear  structure and nuclear astrophysics. For a considerably large model space allowing cross-shell excitations, a new effective Hamiltonian is determined by employing the extended pairing-plus-quadrupole model with monopole corrections. Calculations for two mass regions, for the north-east quadrant of 132Sn with Z > 50 and N > 82 and for the south-west quadrant with Z < 50 and N < 82, have been performed recently. The structure of these nuclei is analyzed in detail, and the role of the monopole corrections canbe clearly seen.     

放射性核束物理与核天体物理

基于兰州重离子加速器国家实验室 (HIRFL )的中能放射性核束线 (RIBLL)及北京串列加速器国家实验室 (HI- 1 3 )的低能放射性核束线 (GIRAFFE) ,开展放射性核束物理和核天体物理研究 ,拟解决的关键科学问题是 :远离β稳定线核的结构与反应 ;超重新核素及近滴线核素的合成和性质研究 ,极端同位旋非对称核物质特性和关键的天体核反应研究 .研究内容分成 7个课题 :(1 )晕核研究 ;(2 )新核素合成及超重新核素研究 ;(3 )丰中子核结构和反应 ;(4)丰质子核结构和反应 ;(5 )高自旋的同位旋相关性 ;(6 )关键天体核反应 ;(7)系统的理论研究 .上述研究也将是2005年建成的国家大科学工程——兰州冷却贮存环的主要科学目标的研究基础 .简述了近期的主要工作进展. Based on the intermediate energy radioactive Ion Beam Line in Lanzhou (RIBLL) of Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou(HIRFL) and Low Energy Radioactive Ion Beam Line (GIRAFFE) of Beijing National Tandem Accelerator Lab (HI-13) the radioactive ion beam physics and nuclear astrophysics will be researched in detail. The key scientific problems which will be researched as high priority are: the nuclear structure and reaction for nucleus far from β-stability line; the syntheses...     

一类生灭过程及其在核天体物理计算中的应用

研究一类生灭过程,利用矩阵分解技巧求出了生灭过程微分方程的解,并将之应用于核天体物理中太阳系慢中子俘获过程重元丰度计算问题研究,计算结果与天文观测值一致.     

Mass Measurements in Nuclear Reactions

The present status of mass measurements from reactions producing nuclei at the driplines, including those unstable to nucleon or cluster emission, is discussed. The results of recent heavy ion and π-meson induced experiments on the study of the superheavy hydrogen isotopes (⁴H, ⁵H, ⁶H), helium (⁹He, ¹⁰He), lithium (¹⁰Li, ¹¹Li) and beryllium (¹³Be) are given. The possibilities of mass measurements in radioactive ion beam experiments are also considered. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The History and Impact of the CNO Cycles in Nuclear Astrophysics

The carbon cycle, or Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle, plays an important role in astrophysics as one of the most important energy sources for quiescent and explosive hydrogen burning in stars. This paper presents the intellectual and historical background of the idea of the correlation between stellar energy production and the synthesis of the chemical elements in stars on the example of this cycle. In particular, it addresses the contributions of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Hans Bethe, who provided the first predictions of the carbon cycle. Further, the experimental verification of the predicted process as it developed over the following decades is discussed, as well as the extension of the initial carbon cycle to the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) multi-cycles and the hot CNO cycles. This development emerged from the detailed experimental studies of the associated nuclear reactions over more than seven decades. Finally, the impact of the experimental and theoretical results on our present understanding of hydrogen burning in different stellar environments is presented, as well as the impact on our understanding of the chemical evolution of our universe.     

原子能院的核天体物理研究和串列升级工程进展(英文)

在北京串列实验室建立了次级束流实验装置 ,用于放射性核束物理和核天体物理研究 .先后开展了7Be(d ,n) 8B ,11C(d ,n) 12 N ,8Li(d ,p) 9Li和6 He(p ,n) 6 Li核天体物理重要反应的研究 .介绍了串列加速器升级工程的进展情况 .该工程在现有串列加速器的基础上 ,将建立 10 0MeV/ 2 0 0 μA的质子回旋加速器、在线同位素分离器和超导加速段 .在此装置上 ,将可以产生质量数最高为 12 0 ,强度最高为 10 9particles/s的放射性束流 . A secondary beam line (GIRAFFE) at the Beijing Tandem accelerator lab was constructed for yielding low energy secondary beams. The current progress on the study of nuclear astrophysics and nuclear structure is presented. Up to now, We have carried out measurement of~(7)Be(d, n)~( 8)B,~(11)C(d, n)~(12)N,~(8)Li(d, p)~(9)Li, and~(6)He(p, n)~(6)Li reactions. The proposed Beijing radioactive nuclear beam facility (BRIF ) and its current R&D progress are briefly introduced. This facility is based on...     

AMS在核物理与天体物理研究中的应用

加速器质谱学方法在核物理与天体物理研究中有重要应用.主要介绍了该方法在寻找泡利不相容原理的违背事例和超新星活动研究等工作中的应用. As an ultra high sensitive analyzing method, accelerator mass spectrometry is playing an important role in the studies of nuclear physics and astrophysics. In this article, accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) applications in searching for violation of Pauli exclusion principle and study on supernovae are discussed as examples.