Abstract
Nuclear reactions play a key role in the framework of the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. A network of 12 principal reactions has been identified as the main path that drove the elemental nucleosynthesis in the first 20 min of the history of the Universe. Among them an important role is played by neutron-induced reactions, which, from an experimental point of view, are usually a difficult task to be measured directly. Nevertheless big efforts in the last decades have led to a better understanding of their role in the primordial nucleosynthesis network. In this work we apply the Trojan Horse Method to extract the cross section at astrophysical energies for the \(^3\text {He}\)(n,p)\(^3\text {H}\) reaction after a detailed study of the \(^2\hbox {H}\)(\(^3\text {He}\),pt)H three-body process. Data extracted from the present measurement are compared with other published sets.
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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: Data are stored in INFN LNS computer disks and are available to the community upon request].
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We thank the staff of the LNS target laboratory, for target preparation as well as the Nuclear Science Laboratory (supported by Grant the National Science Foundation under grant number NSF PHY-1713857) staff at the University of Notre Dame for their invaluable efforts. J.M, G.D. and V. B. were supported by MEYS Czech Republic under the project EF16-013/0001679. The authors acknowledge “Finanziamenti di linea 2” and “Starting Grant 2020” by University of Catania. This work was also supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (Nos. 2020R1A2C1005981 and 2016R1A5A1013277).
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Pizzone, R.G., Spampinato, C., Spartá, R. et al. Indirect measurement of the \(^3\hbox {He}\)(n,p)\(^3\hbox {H}\) reaction cross section at Big Bang energies. Eur. Phys. J. A 56, 199 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00212-x
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