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Fougères C, de Oliveira Santos F, José J, Michelagnoli C, Clément E, Kim YH, Lemasson A, Guimarães V, Barrientos D, Bemmerer D, Benzoni G, Boston AJ, Böttger R, Boulay F, Bracco A, Čeliković I, Cederwall B, Ciemala M, Delafosse C, Domingo-Pardo C, Dudouet J, Eberth J, Fülöp Z, González V, Gottardo A, Goupil J, Hess H, Jungclaus A, Kaşkaş A, Korichi A, Lenzi SM, Leoni S, Li H, Ljungvall J, Lopez-Martens A, Menegazzo R, Mengoni D, Million B, Mrázek J, Napoli DR, Navin A, Nyberg J, Podolyák Z, Pullia A, Quintana B, Ralet D, Redon N, Reiter P, Rezynkina K, Saillant F, Salsac MD, Sánchez-Benítez AM, Sanchis E, Şenyiğit M, Siciliano M, Smirnova NA, Sohler D, Stanoiu M, Theisen C, Valiente-Dobón JJ, Ujić P, Zielińska M. Search for 22Na in novae supported by a novel method for measuring femtosecond nuclear lifetimes. Nat Commun 2023; 14:4536. [PMID: 37669984 PMCID: PMC10480179 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40121-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 07/13/2023] [Indexed: 09/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Classical novae are thermonuclear explosions in stellar binary systems, and important sources of 26Al and 22Na. While γ rays from the decay of the former radioisotope have been observed throughout the Galaxy, 22Na remains untraceable. Its half-life (2.6 yr) would allow the observation of its 1.275 MeV γ-ray line from a cosmic source. However, the prediction of such an observation requires good knowledge of its nucleosynthesis. The 22Na(p, γ)23Mg reaction remains the only source of large uncertainty about the amount of 22Na ejected. Its rate is dominated by a single resonance on the short-lived state at 7785.0(7) keV in 23Mg. Here, we propose a combined analysis of particle-particle correlations and velocity-difference profiles to measure femtosecond nuclear lifetimes. The application of this method to the study of the 23Mg states, places strong limits on the amount of 22Na produced in novae and constrains its detectability with future space-borne observatories.
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Affiliation(s)
- Chloé Fougères
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France.
- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
| | | | - Jordi José
- Departament de Física, EEBE, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
- Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
| | - Caterina Michelagnoli
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
- Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France
| | - Emmanuel Clément
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
| | - Yung Hee Kim
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
- Center for Exotic Nuclear Studies, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
| | - Antoine Lemasson
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
| | - Valdir Guimarães
- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, Brazil
| | | | - Daniel Bemmerer
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany
| | - Giovanna Benzoni
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
| | - Andrew J Boston
- Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
| | - Roman Böttger
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany
| | - Florent Boulay
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
| | - Angela Bracco
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
| | - Igor Čeliković
- Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
| | - Bo Cederwall
- Department of Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
| | - Michał Ciemala
- Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, PL-31342, Kraków, Poland
| | - Clément Delafosse
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - César Domingo-Pardo
- Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
| | - Jérémie Dudouet
- Université Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I Lyon, UMR 5822, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
| | - Jürgen Eberth
- Institut für Kernphysik, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany
| | - Zsolt Fülöp
- Institute for Nuclear Research (ATOMKI), Debrecen, Hungary
| | - Vicente González
- Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
| | | | - Johan Goupil
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
| | - Herbert Hess
- Institut für Kernphysik, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany
| | | | - Ayşe Kaşkaş
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
| | - Amel Korichi
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - Silvia M Lenzi
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universitá degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - Silvia Leoni
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy
| | - Hongjie Li
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
| | - Joa Ljungvall
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - Araceli Lopez-Martens
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - Roberto Menegazzo
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - Daniele Mengoni
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universitá degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
| | - Benedicte Million
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
| | - Jaromír Mrázek
- Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež, Czech Republic
| | | | - Alahari Navin
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
| | - Johan Nyberg
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
| | - Zsolt Podolyák
- Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
| | - Alberto Pullia
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy
| | - Begoña Quintana
- Laboratorio de Radiaciones Ionizantes, Departamento de Física Fundamental, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
| | - Damien Ralet
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
| | - Nadine Redon
- Université Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, IP2I Lyon, UMR 5822, F-69622, Villeurbanne, France
| | - Peter Reiter
- Institut für Kernphysik, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany
| | - Kseniia Rezynkina
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
- Institut pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
| | - Frédéric Saillant
- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
| | | | - Angel M Sánchez-Benítez
- Department of Integrated Sciences, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Fisica, Matematicas y Computacion (CEAFMC), University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
| | - Enrique Sanchis
- Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
| | - Menekşe Şenyiğit
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
| | - Marco Siciliano
- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
- Irfu, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, IFIN-HH Bucharest, Măgurele, Romania
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- Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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