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Description
The study of nuclear reactions involving light nuclei at low incident energies is essential for the development and corroboration of different theories and models applied to astrophysical environments [1,2]. The experimental Basic Nuclear Physics (FNB) line, installed at the 3 MV tandem accelerator of the National Accelerators Center (CNA), is being adapted and prepared to study these kinds of reactions at energies around the Coulomb barrier, leveraging the target development and characterization capabilities at the CNA and its collaborating facilities.
A new experimental setup, composed by two large area segmented silicon detectors in telescope configuration, has been mounted at the FNB beam line. The segmentation of the detectors, along with the facility's capabilities, will allow us to obtain a precise energy distribution of the reaction fragments, with high angular resolution covering a 25$^\circ$ angular range. This work will outline the characterization of the detection system and the overall experimental setup. In addition, preliminary results for the $^6$Li+$^{12}$C reaction at incident energies from 3 to 8 MeV, with particular emphasis on the dissociation channels of the projectile, will be presented.
References
[1] Stéphane Goriely. “Nuclear properties for nuclear astrophysics studies”. In:
The European Physical Journal A 59.2 (2023), p. 16.
[2] GG Rapisarda et al. “Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics With the Light
Elements Li, Be and B: A Review”. In: Frontiers in Astronomy and Space
Sciences 7 (2021), p. 589240.
