30 August 2015 to 4 September 2015
MartiniPlaza Congress Center
Europe/Berlin timezone

The impact of new thermonuclear reaction rates of 64Ge(p,γ)65As and 65As(p,γ)66Se for type-I X-ray bursts

1 Sep 2015, 15:45
15m
Room 2

Room 2

Speaker

Yek Wah LAM (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Description

We derived new thermonuclear 64Ge(p,γ)65As and 65As(p,γ)66Se reaction rates based on recently evaluated proton separation energies Sp and nuclear structure data from large-scale shell model calculation. These two rp processes are sensitive to adequately small change of Sp values, spectroscopic factors of proton captures, and densities of excited states of the final nucleus. The precisely measured and evaluated proton separation energies, Sp(65As) and Sp(66Se), largely influence the rates compared to currently available JINA data sets, REACLIB, particularly about two order for 64Ge(p,γ) rate. By using one-zone post-processing type I X-ray burst model simulating the nucleosynthesis within accreted envelopes of neutron stars in close binary systems, we found that the new rates based on newly evaluated Sp(65As) and Sp(66Se) values, resonant energies, and spectroscopic factors estimated from shell model significantly affects the productions of nuclide in the range of 64 ≤ A ≤ 110 about one to ten times compared to productions of nuclide based on presently available REACLIB data. The astrophysical impact of our new rates will be presented.

Primary author

Yek Wah LAM (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Co-authors

Prof. Anuj Parikh (Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (EUETIB), E-08036 Barcelona, Spain) Prof. Jian Jun He (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Presentation Materials