Eur. Phys. J. A (2006) 27: 221-225
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-08-034-5

Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics II

Study of the ⁹Be(p,α)⁶Li reaction via the Trojan Horse Method

¹ Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN, Catania, Italy
² Dipartimento di Metodologie Fisiche e Chimiche per l'Ingegneria, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

^* e-mail: romano@lns.infn.it

Received: 1 July 2005
Accepted: 20 December 2005
Published online: 13 March 2006

Abstract

The Trojan Horse Method has been applied to the ²H(⁹Be,⁶Liα)n three-body reaction in order to investigate the ⁹Be(p,α)⁶Li two-body reaction, which is involved in the study of light element abundances (lithium, beryllium and boron). A coincidence measurement was performed in order to identify the presence of the quasi-free mechanism in the three-body reaction, needed for the application of the method. The astrophysical S(E)-factor was extracted and compared to direct data. No information about electron screening effects can be extracted due to the poor resolution of the indirect data.