Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Fri, 11 May 2012 16:55:02 +0100 Fri, 11 May 2012 16:55:02 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27359 8th International Conference on Nuclear Physics at Storage Rings-Stori11, October 9-14, 2011 Laboratori Nazionale di Frascati, Italy. Storage rings offer the possibility of measuring proton- and alpha-induced reactions in inverse kinematics. The combination of this approachwith a radioactive beamfacility allows, in principle, the determination of the respective cross sections for radioactive isotopes. Such data are highly desired for a better understanding of astrophysical nucleosynthesis processes like the p-process. A pioneering experiment has been performed at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) at GSI using a stable 96Ru beam at 9-11 AMeV and a hydrogen target. Monte-Carlo simulations of the experiment were made using the Geant4 code. In these simulations, the experimental setup is described in detail and all reaction channels can be investigated. Based on the Geant4 simulations, a prediction of the shape of different spectral components can be performed. A comparison of simulated predictions with the experimental results shows a good agreement and allows the extraction of the cross section. Ganna Rastrepina; Thomas Aumann; Shawn Bishop; Klaus Blaum; Konstanze Boretzky; Fritz Bosch; Harald Bräuning; Carsten Brandau; Tom Davinson; Iris Dillmann; Christina Dimopoulou; Olga Ershova; Zsolt Fülöp; Hans Geissel; György Gyürky; Michael Heil; Franz Käppeler; Aleksandra Kelic-Heil; Christophor Kozhuharov; Christoph Langer; Tudi Le Bleis; Yury A. Litvinov; Gavin Lotay; Justyna Marganiec; Gottfried Münzenberg; Fritz Nolden; Nikos Petridis; Ralf Plag; Ulrich Popp; Rene Reifarth; Björn Riese; Catherine Rigollet; Christoph Scheidenberger; Haik Simon; Kerstin Sonnabend; Markus Steck; Thomas Stöhlker; Klaus Sümmerer; Tamas Scücs; Günter Weber; Helmut Weick; Danyal F. A. Winters; Natalya Winters; Philip J. Woods; Qi-Ping Zhong conferenceobject http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27359 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:55:02 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24794 The subject of this thesis aimed at a better understanding of the spectacular X-ray burst. The most likely astrophysical site is a very dense neutron star, which accretes H/He-rich matter from a close companion. While falling towards the neutron star, the matter is heated up and a thermonuclear runaway is ignited. The exact description of this process is dominated by the properties of a few proton-rich radioactive isotopes, which have a low interaction probability, hence a high abundance. The topic of this thesis was therefore an investigation of the short-lived, proton-rich isotopes 31Cl and 32Ar. The Coulomb dissociation method is the modern technique of choice. Excitations with energies up to 20 MeV can be induced by the Lorentz contracted Coulomb field of a lead target. At the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH in Darmstadt, Germany, a Ar beam was accelerated to an energy of 825 AMeV and fragmented in a beryllium target. The fragment separator was used to select the desired isotopes with a remaining energy of 650 AMeV. They were subsequently directed onto a 208 Pb target in the ALAND/LAND setup. The measurement was performed in inverse kinematics. All reaction products were detected and inclusive and exclusive measurements of the respective Coulomb dissociation cross sections were possible. During the analysis of the experiment, it was possible to extract the energy-differential excitation spectrum of 31Cl, and to constrain astrophysically important parameters for the time-reversed 30S(p,γ)31Cl reaction. A single resonance at 0.443(37) MeV dominates the stellar reaction rate, which was also deduced and compared to previous calculations. The integrated Coulomb dissociation cross section of this resonance was determined to 15(6) mb. The astrophysically important one- and two-proton emission channels were analyzed for 32Ar and energy-differential excitation spectra could be derived. The integrated Coulomb dissociation cross section for two proton emission were determined with two different techniques. The inclusive measurement yields a cross section of 214(29stat)(20sys) mb, whereas the exclusive reconstruction results in a cross section of 226(14stat)(23sys) mb. Both results are in very good agreement. The Coulomb dissociation cross section for the one-proton emission channel is extracted solely from the exclusive measurement and is 54(8stat)(6sys) mb. Furthermore, the development of the Low Energy Neutron detector Array (LENA) for the upcoming R3B setup is described. The detector will be utilized in charge-exchange reactions to detect the low-energy recoil neutrons from (p,n)-type reactions. These reaction studies are of particular importance in the astrophysical context and can be used to constrain half lifes under stellar conditions. In the frame of this work, prototypes of the detector were built and successfully commissioned in several international laboratories. The analysis was supported by detailed simulations of the detection characteristics. Christoph Langer doctoralthesis http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24794 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:53:03 +0200