Thermonuclear reaction rates for the $24$Mg(p, γ)$25$Al reaction.
ZAIDINS C.S. and LANGER G.E.
Abstract (from CDS):
begin{tex}There is substantial evidence that most of the material in the envelopes of some globular cluster giants is mixed so deeply into the interior that the abundances of many of the light elements, including magnesium and aluminum, are reshuffled by proton capture before the material is returned to the envelope above. In order to understand these abundance changes we must know all of the appropriate proton capture rates. We have recalculated the thermonuclear reaction rates, N_A < σv>_T, for the ^{24}Mg(p,γ) ^{25}Al reaction using the canonical 57 temperatures from Caughlan and Fowler (1988) in the range from T9 = 0.004 to T9 = 10.0, where T9 is the temperature in units of 10^9 Kelvins. We have done these calculations using a range of values for the unmeasured total width, Γ_1, of the lowest resonance , (1/2)^+, in the p + ^{24}Mg system. This resonance is located at 2486 keV excitation in ^{25}Al and there is a large uncertainty in the value of Γ_1. The rates currently used are based upon a value of Γ_1 = 75 meV, whereas the most recently accepted experimental value is an upper limit for Γ_1 of 32 eV. For values of T9 < 0.07 the rates are quite sensitive to this uncertain width. We discuss the consequences of this uncertainty and the need for experimental data to determine Γ_1. We have also found that for T9 > 5.0, the recalculated rates are somewhat higher than those in Caughlan and Fowler (1988). We present our rates in tabular form.
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