Study of the 10B(p,α)7Be reaction through the indirect Trojan horse method

Abstract

The 10B(p,α)7Be reaction is the main responsible for 10B destruction in stellar interior. In such environments the process takes places mainly through a resonant state of the compound 11C nucleus. The 10B(p,α)7Be reaction has been studied by means of the Trojan Horse Method using the 2H(10B,α7Be)n three-body reaction. The experiment was performed at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud in Catania. The 10B(p,α)7Be reaction cross section has been extracted at low neutron momentum. © 2010 American Institute of Physics.