First Proton-Induced Cross Sections on a Stored Rare Ion Beam: Measurement of ^{118}Te(p,γ) for Explosive Nucleosynthesis

S F Dellmann; J Glorius; Yu A Litvinov; R Reifarth; L Varga; M Aliotta; F Amjad; K Blaum; L Bott; C Brandau; B Brückner; C G Bruno; R-J Chen; T Davinson; T Dickel; I Dillmann; D Dmytriev; P Erbacher; O Forstner; D Freire-Fernández; H Geissel; K Göbel; C J Griffin; R E Grisenti; A Gumberidze; E Haettner; S Hagmann; T Heftrich; M Heil; R Heß; P-M Hillenbrand; C Hornung; R Joseph; B Jurado; E Kazanseva; K Khasawneh; R Knöbel; D Kostyleva; C Kozhuharov; I Kulikov; N Kuzminchuk; D Kurtulgil; C Langer; G Leckenby; C Lederer-Woods; M Lestinsky; S Litvinov; B Löher; B Lorentz; E Lorenz; J Marsh; E Menz; T Morgenroth; I Mukha; N Petridis; U Popp; A Psaltis; S Purushothaman; E Rocco; P Roy; M S Sanjari; C Scheidenberger; M Sguazzin; R S Sidhu; U Spillmann; M Steck; T Stöhlker; A Surzhykov; J A Swartz; Y Tanaka; H Törnqvist; D Vescovi; M Volknandt; H Weick; M Weigand; P J Woods; T Yamaguchi; J Zhao

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.142701

First Proton-Induced Cross Sections on a Stored Rare Ion Beam: Measurement of ^{118}Te(p,γ) for Explosive Nucleosynthesis

Phys Rev Lett. 2025 Apr 11;134(14):142701. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.142701.

Authors

S F Dellmann^{1

2}, J Glorius³, Yu A Litvinov³, R Reifarth^{1

2}, L Varga^{3

4}, M Aliotta^{1

3

4}, F Amjad³, K Blaum⁵, L Bott¹, C Brandau³, B Brückner¹, C G Bruno⁴, R-J Chen^{3

6}, T Davinson⁴, T Dickel^{3

7}, I Dillmann^{8

9}, D Dmytriev³, P Erbacher¹, O Forstner^{3

10}, D Freire-Fernández^{2

5}, H Geissel^{3

7}, K Göbel³, C J Griffin⁸, R E Grisenti³, A Gumberidze³, E Haettner³, S Hagmann³, T Heftrich¹, M Heil³, R Heß³, P-M Hillenbrand³, C Hornung³, R Joseph³, B Jurado¹¹, E Kazanseva³, K Khasawneh¹, R Knöbel³, D Kostyleva³, C Kozhuharov³, I Kulikov³, N Kuzminchuk³, D Kurtulgil¹, C Langer¹², G Leckenby^{8

13}, C Lederer-Woods⁴, M Lestinsky³, S Litvinov³, B Löher³, B Lorentz³, E Lorenz¹⁴, J Marsh⁴, E Menz³, T Morgenroth³, I Mukha³, N Petridis³, U Popp³, A Psaltis^{15

16}, S Purushothaman³, E Rocco³, P Roy^{3

17}, M S Sanjari^{3

12}, C Scheidenberger^{3

7

18}, M Sguazzin¹¹, R S Sidhu¹⁹, U Spillmann³, M Steck³, T Stöhlker^{3

10

20}, A Surzhykov^{21

22}, J A Swartz^{11

23}, Y Tanaka³, H Törnqvist^{3

14}, D Vescovi^{1

24}, M Volknandt¹, H Weick³, M Weigand¹, P J Woods⁴, T Yamaguchi^{25

26}, J Zhao³

Affiliations

¹ Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
² Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
³ GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany.
⁴ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
⁵ Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁶ Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
⁷ Justus-Liebig Universität, Gießen, Germany.
⁸ TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁹ University of Victoria, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
¹⁰ Helmholtz-Institut Jena, Jena, Germany.
¹¹ Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, LP2I Bordeaux, Gradignan, France.
¹² University of Applied Sciences, Aachen, Germany.
¹³ University of British Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
¹⁴ Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
¹⁵ North Carolina State University, Department of Physics, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
¹⁶ Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
¹⁷ Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, 1/AF, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, India.
¹⁸ Helmholtz Forschungsakademie Hessen fuer FAIR (HFHF), Campus Gießen, Germany.
¹⁹ University of Surrey, School of Mathematics and Physics, Guildford, United Kingdom.
²⁰ Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Institut fuer Optik und Quantenelektronik, Jena, Germany.
²¹ Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany.
²² Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
²³ Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
²⁴ Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo, Teramo, Italy.
²⁵ Saitama University, Department of Physics, Saitama, Japan.
²⁶ Tomonaga Center for the History of the Universe, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

PMID: 40279615
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.142701

Abstract

We present the first nuclear cross-section measurements of (p,γ) and (p,n) reactions on ^{118}Te at energies relevant for the γ-process nucleosynthesis. Absolute cross-section values for center-of-mass energies of 6, 7 and 10 MeV are provided, together with a theoretical extrapolation to the Gamow window. This experiment marks the first time that direct proton-induced reactions have been measured on a radioactive ion beam at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR) at GSI, Darmstadt. This paves the way for a large variety of measurements, delivering new constraints for explosive nucleosynthesis and for physics beyond nuclear stability.