https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-022-00889-2
Review
Indirect investigations on fusion reactions
1
Laboratori Nazionali del Sud-INFN, Catania, Italy
2
Universitá di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
3
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Maiorana”, Universitá di Catania, Catania, Italy
4
CSFNSM-Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e Struttura della Materia, Catania, Italy
5
Facoltá di Ingegneria e Architettura, Universitá degli Studi di Enna Kore, Enna, Italy
Received:
19
September
2022
Accepted:
13
November
2022
Published online:
30
November
2022
Stellar evolution and element nucleosynthesis involve a wide range of interacting physical processes whose knowledge is fundamental to understand the astrophysical phenomena. Several nuclear processes hold the keys to many of the most intriguing problems. However, their studies can be challenging and a number of issues can be better understood by means of “indirect methods”, which are alternative and complementary to direct measurements. Among them, the Trojan Horse Method (THM) gives powerful hints to neutron or charged-particle-induced reactions while the Asymptotic Normalisation Coefficient (ANC) is effective to study particle capture reactions. We will review a couple of cases which were recently studied with those methods and define the importance of those reactions in the framework of stellar physics.
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