Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2021 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Volume 66, Number 8
Monday–Thursday, October 11–14, 2021; Virtual; Eastern Daylight Time
Session DD: Nuclear Astrophysics I
9:30 AM–11:18 AM,
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Room: The Loft
Chair: Amber Lauer-Coles, Brookhaven
Abstract: DD.00008 : Measuring the cross section of the 15N(a,g)19F reaction using a single-fluid bubble chamber. *
10:54 AM–11:06 AM
Presenter:
David Neto
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Authors:
David Neto
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Melina Avila
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Kevin Bailey
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Jay F Benesch
(Jefferson Lab)
Brandi Cade
(Jefferson Lab)
Brad J DiGiovine
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Joseph M Grames
(Jefferson Lab)
Alicia Hofler
(Jefferson Lab)
Roy J Holt
(Caltech)
Reza Kazimi
(Jefferson Lab)
Dave Meekins
(Jefferson Lab)
Michael McCaughan
(Jefferson Lab)
Daniel Moser
(Jefferson Lab)
Matthew Poelker
(Jefferson Lab)
Thomas O'Connor
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Karl E Rehm
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Seamus P Riordan
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Riad S Suleiman
(Jefferson Lab)
Rashi Talwar
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Claudio Ugalde
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
15N(α,γ)19F is believed to be the primary means of nucleosynthesis of Fluorine in AGB and WR stars. In this talk, we present the use of a single-fluid bubble chamber to measure the time-inverse photo-dissociation reaction. Benefiting from increases of the luminosity, over methods using thin-films or gas targets, by several orders of magnitude from both the factor of 10-100 gain from the reciprocity theorem and the use of a thicker liquid target. We will discuss the results of test measurements at JLAB, measuring the cross section of the photodisintegration process 19F(γ,α)15N by bombarding a superheated fluid of C3F8 with bremsstrahlung γ rays. Simulating the γ ray beam in Geant4 and convoluting the γ spectrum with the Breit-Wigner cross-section. Using this technique, we measure cross sections of the time-reversed 15N(α,γ)19F reaction down to the range of hundreds of picobarns. We also discuss future changes to the experimental setup, potentially pushing measurements down to the tens of picobarn range.
*This work supported by the US DOE Nuclear Physics Contracts No. DE-AC02-06CH11357 (ANL) and DE-AC05-06OR23177 (JLAB).
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