Cluster effects on low-energy carbon burning

Cluster effects on low-energy carbon burning

Carbon burning is crucial for the fate of massive stars and element creation in the Universe. Its understanding at stellar energies is a great theoretical challenge, as carbon fusion is a multidimensional quantum tunneling process affected by resonances whose origin is not fully understood yet. Simp...

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Published in:Physics letters. B Vol. 849; p. 138476
Main Authors: Diaz-Torres, A., Gasques, L.R., Antonenko, N.V.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V 01-02-2024
Elsevier
Subjects:
Carbon burning
Cluster effects
Coupled channels
Molecular resonances
Nuclear fusion
Wave packet dynamics
Molecular resonances
Carbon burning
Coupled channels
Wave packet dynamics
Nuclear fusion
Cluster effects
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Summary:Carbon burning is crucial for the fate of massive stars and element creation in the Universe. Its understanding at stellar energies is a great theoretical challenge, as carbon fusion is a multidimensional quantum tunneling process affected by resonances whose origin is not fully understood yet. Simplified quantum dynamical coupled-channels calculations are presented, suggesting that clustering in the intermediate nuclear molecule is a source of fusion resonances.
ISSN:0370-2693
1873-2445
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2024.138476