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Many stellar burning phases are dominated by thermonuclear reactions involving stable nuclei. Prominent examples include hydrostatic hydrogen and helium burning in low-mass stars, massive stars, and thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch stars. The nuclear reaction cross sections involved are very small and thus successful measurements require sophisticated equipment and data analysis techniques. We will provide an overview of recent experimental improvements at the Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (LENA).
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This work was supported in part by NASA under the Astrophysics Theory Program grant 14-ATP14-0007, and the U.S. DOE under contracts DE-FG02-97ER41041 (UNC) and DE-FG02-97ER41033 (TUNL).
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Iliadis, C. et al. (2019). Direct Charged-Particle Measurements Using Stable Beams Above Ground. 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_37
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