Decay of the key 92-keV resonance in the 25Mg(p,γ) reaction to the ground and isomeric states of the cosmic γ-ray emitter 26Al
Kankainen, A., Woods, P.J., Doherty, D.T., Albers, H.M., Albers, M., Ayangeakaa, A.D., Carpenter, M.P., Chiara, C.J., Harker, J.L., Janssens, R.V.F., Lederer-Woods, C., Seweryniak, D., Strieder, F., & Zhu, S. (2021). Decay of the key 92-keV resonance in the 25Mg(p,γ) reaction to the ground and isomeric states of the cosmic γ-ray emitter 26Al. Physics Letters B, 813, Article 136033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.136033
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The 92-keV resonance in the 25Mg(p,γ)26Al reaction plays a key role in the production of 26Al at astrophysical burning temperatures of ≈100 MK in the Mg-Al cycle. However, the state can decay to feed either the ground, 26gAl, or isomeric state, 26mAl. It is the ground state that is critical as the source of cosmic γ rays. It is therefore important to precisely determine the ground-state branching fraction f0 of this resonance. Here we report on the identification of four γ-ray transitions from the 92-keV resonance, and determine the spin of the state and its ground-state branching fraction f0=0.52(2)stat(6)syst. The f0 value is the most precise reported to date, and at the lower end of the range of previously adopted values, implying a lower production rate of 26gAl and its cosmic 1809-keV γ rays.
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This work was supported by The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-O6CH11357. This research used resources of ANL's ATLAS facility which is a DOE office of Science User Facility. The support from STFC under grant ST/J00006X/1 is gratefully acknowledged. A.K. acknowledges the funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program ...
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