Indirect measurements of neutron-induced reaction cross sections at storage rings

• Published in: 10th Conference on Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics (NPA), Geneva, Switzerland Vol. 279; p. 11006
• Main Authors: Sguazzin, M., Jurado, B., Pibernat, J., Swartz, J. A., Grieser, M., Glorius, J., Litvinov, Y. A., Reifarth, R., Blaum, K., Alfaurt, P., Ascher, P., Audouin, L., Berthelot, C., Blank, B., Bruckner, B., Dellmann, S., Dillmann, I., Domingo-Pardo, C., Dupuis, M., Erbacher, P., Flayol, M., Forstner, O., Freire-Fernández, D., Gerbaux, M., Giovinazzo, J., Grévy, S., Griffin, C. J., Gumberidze, A., Heil, S., Heinz, A., Kurtulgil, D., Leckenby, G., Litvinov, S., Lorentz, B., Méot, V., Michaud, J., Perard, S., Petridis, N., Popp, U., Ramos, D., Roche, M., Sanjari, M.S., Sidhu, R.S., Spillmann, U., Steck, M., Stöhlker, Th, Thomas, B., Thulliez, L., Versteegen, M.
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 01.01.2023
• ISSN: 2100-014X; 2100-014X
• DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202327911006

Neutron-induced reaction cross sections of unstable nuclei are essential for understanding the synthesis of heavy elements in stars. However, their measurement is very difficult due to the radioactivity of the targets involved. We propose to circumvent this problem by using for the first time the surrogate reaction method in inverse kinematics at heavy-ion storage rings. In this contribution, we describe the developments we have done to perform surrogate-reaction studies at the storage rings of GSI/FAIR. In particular, we present the first results of the proof of principle experiment, which we conducted recently at the Experimental Storage Ring (ESR).