https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-00985-x
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Low-energy nuclear reactions with stored ions: a new era of astrophysical experiments at heavy ion storage rings
1
GSI Helmholzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Planckstr. 1, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany
2
School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Peter Gurthrie Tait Road, EH9 3FD, Edinburgh, UK
Received:
30
December
2022
Accepted:
16
March
2023
Published online:
19
April
2023
Heavy ion storage rings are powerful tools to store and observe key nuclear properties of rare radioactive isotopes. Recent developments in ring physics and enhanced beam intensities have now opened up the possibility to carry out low-energy investigations of nuclear reactions at rings. Pure, intense, exotic beams of isotopes that are otherwise challenging to access can be impinged on pure, ultra-thin targets, allowing the study of long-standing nuclear astrophysical puzzles in a variety of stellar sites that have so far resisted traditional approaches. In this review paper, we will describe pioneering studies with decelerated beams at the ESR storage ring at GSI (Germany), as well as future exciting prospects at the ESR and CRYRING at GSI/FAIR.
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