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Damone L, Barbagallo M, Mastromarco M, Mengoni A, Cosentino L, Maugeri E, Heinitz S, Schumann D, Dressler R, Käppeler F, Colonna N, Finocchiaro P, Andrzejewski J, Perkowski J, Gawlik A, Aberle O, Altstadt S, Ayranov M, Audouin L, Bacak M, Balibrea-Correa J, Ballof J, Bécares V, Bečvář F, Beinrucker C, Bellia G, Bernardes AP, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Borge MJG, Bosnar D, Brown A, Brugger M, Busso M, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Castelluccio DM, Catherall R, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Correia JGM, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cristallo S, Diakaki M, Dietz M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dorsival A, Dupont E, Duran I, Fernandez-Dominguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Furman W, Ganesan S, García-Rios A, Gilardoni S, Glodariu T, Göbel K, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Goodacre TD, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heftrich T, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Johnston K, Kadi Y, Kalamara A, Katabuchi T, Kavrigin P, Kimura A, Kivel N, Köster U, Kokkoris M, Krtička M, Kurtulgil D, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer-Woods C, Leeb H, Lerendegui-Marco J, Lo Meo S, Lonsdale SJ, Losito R, Macina D, Marganiec J, Marsh B, Martínez T, Masi A, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Matteucci F, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Musumarra A, Negret A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Piersanti L, Piscopo M, Plompen A, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada JM, Radeck D, Rajeev K, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Rothe S, Rout P, Rubbia C, Ryan J, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schell J, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Sedyshev P, Seiffert C, Smith AG, Sosnin NV, Stamatopoulos A, Stora T, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weigand M, Weiß C, Wolf C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. ^{7}Be(n,p)^{7}Li Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 121:042701. [PMID: 30095928 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.042701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2018] [Revised: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
We report on the measurement of the ^{7}Be(n,p)^{7}Li cross section from thermal to approximately 325 keV neutron energy, performed in the high-flux experimental area (EAR2) of the n_TOF facility at CERN. This reaction plays a key role in the lithium yield of the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) for standard cosmology. The only two previous time-of-flight measurements performed on this reaction did not cover the energy window of interest for BBN, and they showed a large discrepancy between each other. The measurement was performed with a Si telescope and a high-purity sample produced by implantation of a ^{7}Be ion beam at the ISOLDE facility at CERN. While a significantly higher cross section is found at low energy, relative to current evaluations, in the region of BBN interest, the present results are consistent with the values inferred from the time-reversal ^{7}Li(p,n)^{7}Be reaction, thus yielding only a relatively minor improvement on the so-called cosmological lithium problem. The relevance of these results on the near-threshold neutron production in the p+^{7}Li reaction is also discussed.
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Affiliation(s)
- L Damone
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - M Mastromarco
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - A Mengoni
- ENEA, Bologna, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
| | - L Cosentino
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
| | - E Maugeri
- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | - S Heinitz
- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | - D Schumann
- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | - R Dressler
- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | - F Käppeler
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Uniwersytet Łódzki, Lodz, Poland
| | - O Aberle
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - S Altstadt
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - M Ayranov
- European Commission, DG-Energy, Luxembourg
| | - L Audouin
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3, IPN, Orsay, France
| | - M Bacak
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
| | - J Balibrea-Correa
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - J Ballof
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - V Bécares
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - F Bečvář
- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - C Beinrucker
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - G Bellia
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Italy
| | - A P Bernardes
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | | | - J Billowes
- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
| | - M J G Borge
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - D Bosnar
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
| | - A Brown
- University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom
| | - M Brugger
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - M Busso
- INFN, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia, Italy
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- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - F Calviño
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
| | - M Calviani
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - R Cardella
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3, IPN, Orsay, France
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- C2TN, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- INFN, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Italy
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- CEA/Saclay, IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- C2TN, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- C2TN, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
| | - E González-Romero
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - T D Goodacre
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- CEA/Saclay, IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - H Harada
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
| | - T Heftrich
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - J Heyse
- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Geel, Belgium
| | - D G Jenkins
- University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom
| | - E Jericha
- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
| | - K Johnston
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - A Kalamara
- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
| | - A Kimura
- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
| | - N Kivel
- Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | - U Köster
- Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France
| | - M Kokkoris
- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
| | - M Krtička
- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - D Kurtulgil
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - C Lederer-Woods
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - H Leeb
- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- ENEA, Bologna, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - R Losito
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | | | - B Marsh
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - T Martínez
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - A Masi
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - C Massimi
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy
| | - P Mastinu
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy
| | - F Matteucci
- INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Italy
- Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Trieste, Italy
| | - A Mazzone
- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- CNR, IC, Bari, Italy
| | - E Mendoza
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | | | - F Mingrone
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - M Mirea
- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | - A Musumarra
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Italy
| | - A Negret
- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | - R Nolte
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
| | - A Oprea
- Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | | | - A Pavlik
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Austria
| | - L Piersanti
- INFN, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Italy
| | - M Piscopo
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
| | - A Plompen
- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Geel, Belgium
| | | | - J Praena
- Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- Universidad de Granada, Spain
| | | | - D Radeck
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
| | - K Rajeev
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Centre for Astrophysics Research, School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
| | - S Rothe
- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
| | - C Rubbia
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - J Ryan
- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
| | - M Sabaté-Gilarte
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
| | - A Saxena
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
| | - J Schell
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
- Institute for Materials Science and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Geel, Belgium
| | - S Schmidt
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - P Sedyshev
- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
| | - C Seiffert
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - A G Smith
- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
| | | | - T Stora
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | | | - J L Tain
- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
| | - A Tarifeño-Saldivia
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
| | - L Tassan-Got
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3, IPN, Orsay, France
| | - A Tsinganis
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - S Valenta
- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - G Vannini
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy
| | | | - P Vaz
- C2TN, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
| | - A Wallner
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Austria
- Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
| | - C Weiß
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland
| | - C Wolf
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
| | - T Wright
- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
| | - P Žugec
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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Barbagallo M, Musumarra A, Cosentino L, Maugeri E, Heinitz S, Mengoni A, Dressler R, Schumann D, Käppeler F, Colonna N, Finocchiaro P, Ayranov M, Damone L, Kivel N, Aberle O, Altstadt S, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bacak M, Balibrea-Correa J, Barros S, Bécares V, Bečvář F, Beinrucker C, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Caamaño M, Calviani M, Calviño F, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Castelluccio DM, Cerutti F, Chen YH, Chiaveri E, Cortés G, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cristallo S, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dupont E, Duran I, Fernandez-Dominguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Furman W, Ganesan S, García-Rios A, Gawlik A, Glodariu T, Göbel K, Gonçalves IF, González-Romero E, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Harada H, Heftrich T, Heyse J, Jenkins DG, Jericha E, Katabuchi T, Kavrigin P, Kimura A, Kokkoris M, Krtička M, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lerendegui J, Lederer C, Leeb H, Lo Meo S, Lonsdale SJ, Losito R, Macina D, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Mazzone A, Mendoza E, Milazzo PM, Mingrone F, Mirea M, Montesano S, Nolte R, Oprea A, Pappalardo A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Piscopo M, Plompen A, Porras I, Praena J, Quesada J, Rajeev K, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Rout P, Rubbia C, Ryan J, Sabate-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Vollaire J, Wallner A, Warren S, Weigand M, Weiß C, Wolf C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. ^{7}Be(n,α)^{4}He Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:152701. [PMID: 27768364 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.152701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
The energy-dependent cross section of the ^{7}Be(n,α)^{4}He reaction, of interest for the so-called cosmological lithium problem in big bang nucleosynthesis, has been measured for the first time from 10 meV to 10 keV neutron energy. The challenges posed by the short half-life of ^{7}Be and by the low reaction cross section have been overcome at n_TOF thanks to an unprecedented combination of the extremely high luminosity and good resolution of the neutron beam in the new experimental area (EAR2) of the n_TOF facility at CERN, the availability of a sufficient amount of chemically pure ^{7}Be, and a specifically designed experimental setup. Coincidences between the two alpha particles have been recorded in two Si-^{7}Be-Si arrays placed directly in the neutron beam. The present results are consistent, at thermal neutron energy, with the only previous measurement performed in the 1960s at a nuclear reactor. The energy dependence reported here clearly indicates the inadequacy of the cross section estimates currently used in BBN calculations. Although new measurements at higher neutron energy may still be needed, the n_TOF results hint at a minor role of this reaction in BBN, leaving the long-standing cosmological lithium problem unsolved.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia DFA, Università di Catania, Italy
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
| | - L Cosentino
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
| | - E Maugeri
- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | - S Heinitz
- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | | | - R Dressler
- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | - D Schumann
- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | - F Käppeler
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- European Commission, DG-Energy, Luxembourg
| | | | - N Kivel
- Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
| | | | - S Altstadt
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - L Audouin
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3-IPN, Orsay, France
| | - M Bacak
- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
| | - J Balibrea-Correa
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - S Barros
- C2TN-Instituto Superior Tecníco, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
| | - V Bécares
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - F Bečvář
- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - C Beinrucker
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
| | | | - J Billowes
- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
| | - D Bosnar
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
| | | | - M Caamaño
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | | | - F Calviño
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
| | - D Cano-Ott
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - R Cardella
- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - A Casanovas
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3-IPN, Orsay, France
| | | | - G Cortés
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
| | | | - S Cristallo
- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania, Teramo, Italy
| | - M Diakaki
- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
| | - C Domingo-Pardo
- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Spain
| | - E Dupont
- CEA/Saclay-IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - I Duran
- Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- C2TN-Instituto Superior Tecníco, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
| | - S Ganesan
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
| | - A García-Rios
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - A Gawlik
- Uniwersytet Łódzki, Lodz, Poland
| | - T Glodariu
- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | - K Göbel
- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- C2TN-Instituto Superior Tecníco, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
| | - E González-Romero
- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- CEA/Saclay-IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium
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- University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
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- Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Tokai-mura, Japan
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technis che Universität Wien, Austria
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- ENEA, Bologna, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
| | - C Massimi
- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di Bari, Italy
- CNR-IC, Bari, Italy
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- Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Germany
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering-IFIN HH, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Austria
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- INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium
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- Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- Universidad de Granada, Spain
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- Centre for Astrophysics Research, School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
- Department of Physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India
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- European Commission JRC, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Spain
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/IN2P3-IPN, Orsay, France
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- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna
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- C2TN-Instituto Superior Tecníco, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Austria
- Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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Mingrone F, Aberle O, Andrzejewski J, Audouin L, Bécares V, Bacak M, Balibrea-Correa J, Barbagallo M, Barros S, Bečvář F, Beinrucker C, Berthoumieux E, Billowes J, Bosnar D, Brugger M, Caamaño M, Calviño F, Calviani M, Cano-Ott D, Cardella R, Casanovas A, Castelluccio DM, Cerutti F, Chen Y, Chiaveri E, Colonna N, Cortés-Giraldo MA, Cortés G, Cosentino L, Damone L, Diakaki M, Domingo-Pardo C, Dressler R, Dupont E, Durán I, Fernández-Domínguez B, Ferrari A, Ferreira P, Finocchiaro P, Furman V, Ganesan S, Garcia-Rios AA, Gawlik A, Gheorghe I, Glodariu T, Gonçalves IF, Gonzàlez E, Goverdovski A, Griesmayer E, Guerrero C, Gunsing F, Göbel K, Harada H, Heftrich T, Heinitz S, Heyse J, Jenkins G, Jericha E, Käppeler F, Kadi Y, Katabuchi T, Kavrigin P, Ketlerov V, Khryachkov V, Kimura A, Kivel N, Kokkoris M, Krtička M, Leal-Cidoncha E, Lederer C, Leeb H, Lerendegui J, Lo Meo S, Lonsdale S, Losito R, Macina D, Marganiec J, Martínez T, Massimi C, Mastinu P, Mastromarco M, Matteucci F, Maugeri EA, Mendoza E, Mengoni A, Milazzo PM, Mirea M, Montesano S, Musumarra A, Nolte R, Oprea A, Patronis N, Pavlik A, Perkowski J, Praena J, Quesada JM, Rajeev K, Rauscher T, Reifarth R, Riego-Perez A, Rout P, Rubbia C, Ryan JA, Sabaté-Gilarte M, Saxena A, Schillebeeckx P, Schmidt S, Schumann D, Sedyshev P, Smith AG, Stamatopoulos A, Tagliente G, Tain JL, Tarifeño-Saldivia A, Tassan-Got L, Tsinganis A, Valenta S, Vannini G, Variale V, Vaz P, Ventura A, Vlachoudis V, Vlastou R, Wallner A, Warren S, Weigand M, Weiss C, Wolf C, Woods PJ, Wright T, Žugec P. The CERN n_TOF facility: a unique tool for nuclear data measurement. EPJ Web of Conferences 2016. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201612205001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Cosentino L, Musumarra A, Barbagallo M, Colonna N, Damone L, Pappalardo A, Piscopo M, Finocchiaro P. Silicon detectors for monitoring neutron beams in n-TOF beamlines. Rev Sci Instrum 2015; 86:073509. [PMID: 26233385 DOI: 10.1063/1.4927073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
Abstract
During 2014, the second experimental area (EAR2) was completed at the n-TOF neutron beam facility at CERN (n-TOF indicates neutron beam measurements by means of time of flight technique). The neutrons are produced via spallation, by means of a high-intensity 20 GeV pulsed proton beam impinging on a thick target. The resulting neutron beam covers the energy range from thermal to several GeV. In this paper, we describe two beam diagnostic devices, both exploiting silicon detectors coupled with neutron converter foils containing (6)Li. The first one is based on four silicon pads and allows monitoring of the neutron beam flux as a function of the neutron energy. The second one, in beam and based on position sensitive silicon detectors, is intended for the reconstruction of the beam profile, again as a function of the neutron energy. Several electronic setups have been explored in order to overcome the issues related to the gamma flash, namely, a huge pulse present at the start of each neutron bunch which may blind the detectors for some time. The two devices were characterized with radioactive sources and also tested at the n-TOF facility at CERN. The wide energy and intensity range they proved capable of sustaining made them attractive and suitable to be used in both EAR1 and EAR2 n-TOF experimental areas, where they became immediately operational.
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- L Cosentino
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
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