Particle Decay Branching Ratios for States of Astrophysical Importance in ¹⁹Ne

Site Contents

• Title Page
• License
• Abstract
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• Chapter 1: Introduction to Explosive Nucleosynthesis
  • §1.1 Stellar nucleosynthesis
  • §1.2 White dwarves and novae
  • §1.3 Neutron stars and x-ray bursters
• Chapter 2: Present Status of ¹⁹Ne’s role in Nuclear Astrophysics (under construction)
  • §2.1 Nuclear burning through resonances
  • §2.2 Production of ¹⁹F in Novae
    • §2.2.1 Sensitivity to resonances in ¹⁹Ne
    • §2.2.2 Proton resonances in ¹⁹Ne
  • §2.3 Breakout from HotCNO via ¹⁵O(α,γ)
  • §2.4 Summary
• Chapter 3: Experimental Setup for ¹⁹F(³He,t)¹⁹Ne(x₁)x₂ (pending)
• Chapter 4: Results and Analysis (pending)
  • §4.1 YLSA Efficiency (pending)
  • §4.2 Particle ID (pending)
  • §4.3 Kinematic Selection of Decays (pending)
  • §4.4 Extraction of Branching ratios (pending)
  • §4.5 Branching ratios above the α-threshold (E_x=3.529 MeV) (pending)
  • §4.6 Branching ratios above the proton threshold (E_x=6.411 MeV) (pending)
    • §4.6.1 E_x=6.742 MeV (under construction)
    • §4.6.2 E_x=6.861 MeV (pending)
    • §4.6.3 E_x=7.070 MeV (pending)
    • §4.6.4 E_x=7.500 MeV (pending)
• Chapter 5: Discussion and Conclusions (pending)
  • §5.1 Comparison to prior results (pending)
    • §5.1.1 The standard appoach
    • §5.1.2 An alternative Bayesian approach
    • §5.1.3 Application of the Bayesian approach
    • §5.1.4 Discussion (under construction)
• Appendix A: Monte Carlo Algorithm for Determining Efficiency (pending)
• Appendix B: Mathematica fitting example: W(θ) for Γ_α/Γ of E_x=4.600 MeV (pending)
• Bibliography (under construction)

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