https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-019-00016-8
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Resolving the
cross-section discrepancies between 0.5 and 3.5 MeV
1
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
2
Present address: Institute for Big Data Analytics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
3
Present address: Center for Nuclear Technologies, Technical University of Denmark, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark
* e-mail: mm@phys.au.dk
Received:
12
August
2019
Accepted:
10
November
2019
Published online:
21
January
2020
Although the reaction has been widely studied for its relevance in material science, nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics, and fusion science, significant discrepancies exist in the data. For the channel proceeding via the ground state of
, the available cross-section data shows large discrepancies of both normalization and energy scale. The present paper reports on a measurement of the
cross-section using an array of large area segmented silicon detectors and low beam current on an enriched thin target with the aim of resolving the discrepancies amongst previous measurements.
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