Neutron Capture Cross Section of Unstable Ni-63 : Implications for Stellar Nucleosynthesis

Lederer, C., Massimi, C., Altstadt, S., Andrzejewski, J., Audouin, L., Barbagallo, M., Becares, V., Becvar, F., Belloni, F., Berthoumieux, E., Billowes, J., Boccone, V., Bosnar, D., Brugger, M., Calviani, M., Calvino, F., Cano-Ott, D., Carrapico, C., Cerutti, F., Chiaveri, E., Chin, M., Colonna, N., Cortes, G., Cortes-Giraldo, M. A., Diakaki, M., Domingo-Pardo, C., Duran, I., Dressler, R., Dzysiuk, N., Eleftheriadis, C., Ferrari, A., Fraval, K., Ganesan, S., Garcia, A. R., Giubrone, G., Gomez-Hornillos, M. B., Goncalves, I. F., Gonzalez-Romero, E., Griesmayer, E., Guerrero, C., Gunsing, F., Gurusamy, P., Jenkins, D. G., Jericha, E., Kadi, Y., Kaeppeler, F., Karadimos, D., Kivel, N., Koehler, P. and Rauscher, T. (2013) Neutron Capture Cross Section of Unstable Ni-63 : Implications for Stellar Nucleosynthesis. Physical Review Letters, 110 (2): 022501. ISSN 0031-9007

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The Ni-63(n, gamma) cross section has been measured for the first time at the neutron time-of-flight facility n_TOF at CERN from thermal neutron energies up to 200 keV. In total, capture kernels of 12 (new) resonances were determined. Maxwellian averaged cross sections were calculated for thermal energies from kT = 5-100 keV with uncertainties around 20%. Stellar model calculations for a 25M(circle dot) star show that the new data have a significant effect on the s-process production of Cu-63, Ni-64, and Zn-64 in massive stars, allowing stronger constraints on the Cu yields from explosive nucleosynthesis in the subsequent supernova

Item Type	Article
Keywords	uncertainties, nuclear, model calculations, massive stars, weak component, rates, half-life, s-process nucleosynthesis, standardization, statistical-model
Date Deposited	15 May 2025 12:35
Last Modified	30 May 2025 21:21