Study of the primordial lithium abundance

Lithium isotopes have attracted an intense interest because the abundance of both 6Li and 6Li from big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the puzzles in nuclear astrophysics. Many investigations of both astrophysical observation and nucleosynthesis calculation have been carried out to solve the puzzle, but it is not solved yet. Several nuclear reactions involving lithium have been indirectly measured at China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing. The Standard BBN (SBBN) network calculations are then perfo...     

Determination of the ~(12)C(p, γ)~(13)N reaction rates fromthe ~(12)C(~7Li,~6He)~(13)N reaction

The angular distribution of the 12C(7Li,6He)13N reaction at E(7Li) = 44.0 MeV was measured at the HI-13 tandem accelerator of Beijing, China. The asymptotic normalization coefficient (ANC) of 13N → 12C + p was derived to be (1.64 ± 0.11) fm-1/2 through the distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) analysis. The ANC was then used to deduce the astrophysical S (E) factors and reaction rates for the 12C(p,γ)13N direct capture reaction at energies of astrophysical relevance.     

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-...     

Study of the primordial lithium abundance

Lithium isotopes have attracted an intense interest because the abundance of both ⁶Li and ⁷Li from big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the puzzles in nuclear astrophysics. Many investigations of both astrophysical observation and nucleosynthesis calculation have been carried out to solve the puzzle, but it is not solved yet. Several nuclear reactions involving lithium have been indirectly measured at China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing. The Standard BBN (SBBN) network calculations are then performed to investigate the primordial Lithium abundance. The result shows that these nuclear reactions have minimal effect on the SBBN abundances of ⁶Li and ⁷Li.     

Parametrization of woods-saxon potential for heavy-ion systems

Several elastic scattering angular distributions of ~(12)C from target nuclei of A ≥39 are analyzed to extract the Woods-Saxon potential parameters with the fixed imaginary potential and Coulomb radius parameters.Using the best fitted diffuseness parameters,the correlations of the real part parameters with A_1~(1/3)+ A_2~(1/3) and incident energy are revealed, and the systematic Woods-Saxon potential parameters are presented for nucleus-nucleus interaction.The proposed potential parameters can reproduce not only the elastic scattering angular distributions induced by ~(12)C,but also many elastic scattering angular distributions induced by the projectiles other than ~(12)C,thus providing important inputs for the study of nuclear reactions of heavy-ion systems.     

Study of proton resonances in 18Ne via resonant elastic scattering of 17F+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 (C_H2) _n target, the energy spectra of the recoiled protons were measured by two ΔE-E silicon telescopes at the center-of-mass scattering angles of θ _c.m.≈175°±5°, θ _c.m.≈152°±8°, respectively. Several proton resonances in ¹⁸Ne were observed clearly. A further R-matrix analysis of the experimental data is under way to determine the resonant parameters. The present work reports the preliminary results briefly.