https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2005-10265-1
Nuclear Structure and Reactions
A first experimental approach to the 15O + α elastic scattering
1
Institut de Physique Nucléaire et Centre de Recherches du Cyclotron, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2
PNTPM, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium
3
School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Edinburgh, UK
* e-mail: leleux@fynu.ucl.ac.be
Received:
8
November
2005
Accepted:
27
February
2006
Published online:
27
March
2006
The 15O(α,α)15O elastic scattering is investigated using a 15O radioactive beam and a He gas cell limited by Mylar windows. The width of a 19Ne state at an excitation energy of 5.35MeV is measured as Γα = 3.2±1.6keV, in agreement with charge symmetry estimate.
PACS: 25.60.-t Reactions induced by unstable nuclei – / 27.20.+n 6 ⩽ A ⩽ 19 – / 26.30.+k Nucleosynthesis in novae, supernovae, and other explosive environments –
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2006
