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Comment on "Electromagnetic dissociation of 8B and the astrophysical S-factor for 7Be(p,gamma)8B"

K. A. Snover, A. R. Junghans, E. C. Mohrmann

nucl-exarXiv:nucl-ex/0311012

Abstract

Recently, Davids and Typel recommended a "low" value of S17(0) based on fits to published direct and Coulomb dissociation data, in which they excluded the precise result of Junghans et al. We show that their statistical analysis is incorrect, due to a substantial underestimate of the experimental uncertainties, and leads to conclusions that are not supported by a proper analysis.

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