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Alpha Clustering and the stellar nucleosynthesis of carbon

H. Oberhummer, H. Krauss, K. Grün, T. Rauscher, H. Abele, P. Mohr, G. Staudt

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9310026

Abstract

The astrophysical S--factor and reaction rates for the triple--alpha process are calculated in the direct--capture model. It is shown that the stellar carbon production is extremely sensitive to small variations in the N--N interaction.

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