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I will present a theoretical sensitivity study, carried out with the FUNS evolutionary stellar code, to evaluate the effects induced on the s-process nucleosynthesis by variations of the \(^{13}\)C(\(\alpha \),n)\(^{16}\)O cross section. Some peculiar evolutionary phases, particularly sensitive to this rate, will be discussed in detail.
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Cristallo, S. (2019). The Importance of the \(^{13}\)C(\(\alpha \),n)\(^{16}\)O Reaction in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars. In: Formicola, A., Junker, M., Gialanella, L., Imbriani, G. (eds) Nuclei in the Cosmos XV. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 219. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13876-9_30
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