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26Al destruction reactions

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Analysis Of 26Al + P Elastic And Inelastic Scattering Reactions And Galactic Abundances Of 26Al, Stephen Todd Pittman Dec 2011

Analysis Of 26Al + P Elastic And Inelastic Scattering Reactions And Galactic Abundances Of 26Al, Stephen Todd Pittman

Doctoral Dissertations

26Al(p,p)26Al and 26Al(p,p’)26Al* scattering reactions were performed at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The purpose of the elastic scattering study was to determine properties of previously uncharacterized 27Si levels above the proton threshold in the energy range E(c.m.) ~ 0.5 - 1.5 MeV and to calculate reaction rates for the 26Al(p,γ[gamma])27Si reaction that destroys 26Al. The inelastic scattering reaction was also evaluated to investigate the reaction that produces the metastable state of 26Al at E(c.m.) = 228 keV, …