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We report the application of the new elimination of Rutherford elastic scattering technique for the measurement of proton-induced reaction cross sections utilizing stored ions decelerated to astrophysical energies. This approach results in a background reduction factor of about 1 order of magnitude, enabling the first measurement of a (p, n) cross section in a storage ring. Here, the reaction channels ^{124}Xe(p,n) and ^{124}Xe(p,γ) have been studied just above the neutron threshold energy. The new data provide valuable constraints for Hauser-Feshbach theory and extrapolation of the (p,γ) cross section to lower energies. Most importantly, for nuclei of limited availability, the method represents a powerful improvement to efficiently study proton-induced reactions at energies within or close to the astrophysical Gamow window, bringing many reaction measurements within reach that were previously inaccessible in the laboratory.
Authors
- A. Psaltis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2197-0797)
- S. Dellmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6348-858X)
- M.M. Groothuis
- K. Göbel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2832-8465)
- R. S. Sidhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1637-7502)
- H. Törnqvist (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9283-8430)
- N. Petridis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2629-4727)
- R. Hensch
- T. Davinson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8769-6893)
- C. Trageser
- R. Heß (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1239-2585)
- O. Forstner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3636-4669)
- C. Brandau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8825-8820)
- P. J. Woods
- Christian Wolf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4569-016X)
- P. Marini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9537-8126)
- B. Thomas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4874-3220)
- Xiangcheng Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3513-8870)
- Yu. A. Litvinov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7043-4993)
- R. Reifarth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3855-5816)
- D. Dmytriiev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3612-2686)
- Y. M. Xing (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-8983)
- B. Brückner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2145-8363)
- U. Spillmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7281-5063)
- H. Simon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6791-1341)
- B. Löher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9010-2558)
- M. W. Reed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9615-1388)
- A. Khodaparast
- A. Surzhykov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6441-0864)
- J. Marsh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3389-1057)
- A. Gumberidze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2498-971X)
- E. Menz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1451-7089)
- H. Weick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3672-1961)
- B. Jurado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7889-9736)
- M. S. Sanjari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7321-0429)
- I. Dillmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8521-3635)
- Kafa Al-Khasawneh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3372-119X)
- C. J. Griffin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4982-6252)
- R. E. Grisenti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9895-6558)
- T. Szücs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9980-4847)
- Christoph Langer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0495-9000)
- M. Träger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9604-2499)
- E. Lorenz
- S. Goriely
- L. Bott (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9554-6246)
- Ashkan Taremi Zadeh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8179-2067)
- Th. Stöhlker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0461-3560)
- G. Leckenby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5002-763X)
- T. Kisselbach (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4533-3154)
- P.‐M. Hillenbrand (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0166-2666)
- D. Vescovi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0309-4666)
- M. Sguazzin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6611-392X)
- T. Kausch
- Stefan Fiebiger
- M. Lestinsky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-1917)
- C. Kozhuharov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9487-5681)
- Gy. Gyürky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3779-6463)
- Paula Hillmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1889-3938)
- J. Glorius (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1785-3221)
- S. Litvinov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7055-6763)
- F. Nolden
- László Varga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7431-852X)
- T. Morgenroth
- M. Aliotta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3136-9324)
- T. T. Nguyen
- S. Yu. Torilov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6566-7525)
- C. G. Bruno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3241-3371)
- K. Blaum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4468-9316)
- Meiko Volknandt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0664-028X)
- S. Dababneh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7376-1084)
- P. Erbacher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8481-7189)
- D. Savran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2685-5600)
- Z. Slavkovská (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6384-4353)
- Ran Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0494-6819)
- G. J. Lane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2244-182X)
- R. Joseph
- M. Steck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5754-738X)
- Takayuki Yamaguchi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5176-6792)
- D. Kurtulgil
- J. Stumm
- J. A. Swartz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5999-2791)
- M. Weigand
- C. Lederer-Woods
- U. Popp
- S. Trotsenko
- M. Heil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9562-6644)
- O. Hinrichs
- N. Klapper
- T. Gaßner
- B. Lorentz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5943-8911)
Institutions
- Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
- Australian National University (AU)
- Helmholtz Institute Jena (DE)
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (DE)
- TRIUMF (CA)
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University of Tsukuba (JP)
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (DE)
- St Petersburg University (RU)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- HUN-REN Institute for Nuclear Research (HU)
- Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (DE)
- University of Victoria (CA)
- University of Surrey (GB)
- Technische Universität Darmstadt (DE)
- Al-Balqa Applied University (JO)
- Excellence Cluster Origins (DE)
- Collurania Teramo Observatory (IT)
- Institute of Modern Physics (CN)
- Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences (FR)
- Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (DE)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- Saitama University (JP)
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE)
- National Institute for Astrophysics (IT)
- Technische Universität Braunschweig (DE)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- FH Aachen (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-02-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.082701
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Nuclear physics research studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.74
Funders
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
- Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
- Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
- ExtreMe Matter Institute, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
- H2020 European Research Council