Speaker
Ingo Wiedenhoever
(Florida State University)
Description
The cross sections of nuclear reactions between the radioactive isotope 7Be and deuterium, a possible path of reducing the production of mass-7 nuclides in Big-Bang nucleosynthesis, were measured at center-of-mass energies between 0.2 MeV and 1.5 MeV. The experiment was performed with the ANASEN active-target detector system at the RESOLUT facility of Florida State University. We measured cross sections consistent with prior measurements at higher energies but significantly higher yields at lower energy and inside the Gamow window. The implications for the primordial lithium problem will be discussed.
Primary author
Ingo Wiedenhoever
(Florida State University)
Co-authors
Grigory Rogachev
(Texas A&M University)
Jeffrey Blackmon
(Louisiana State University)
Lagy T. Baby
(Florida State University)
Maria Anastasiou
(Florida State University)
Nabin Rijal
(Florida State University)
Peter Hoeflich
(Florida State University)
Yevgen Koshchiy
(Texas A&M University)
