Seventh European summer school on experimental nuclear astrophysics

Contributions

1. Elastic scattering of $^{17}$O ions from $^{58}$Ni and $^{208}$Pb at near-barrier energy

Emanuele Strano (PD)

Elastic scattering experiments provide a first information on the overall reactivity of an exotic projectile. We have recently undertaken a research program aimed at measuring the $^{17}$O elastic scattering process from different targets, being $^{17}$O (S$_n$ = 4.143 MeV) the mirror nucleus of the weakly-bound and radioactive $^{17}$F (S$_p$ = 0.600 MeV). The experiment was performed at...

0. Electron screening effect in nickel

Ms Aleksandra Cvetinović (J. Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia)

For very low projectile energies, far below the Coulomb barrier, the nuclear reaction rate is very low and sensitive to electronic properties of target materials. In this case the projectile tunnels through a wide potential barrier. However, the electrons which are surrounding the reacting nuclei act as a screening potential, which leads to the incoming projectile seeing an effectively reduced...