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Resonances and the thermonuclear reaction rate

M. S. Hussein, M. Ueda, A. J. Sargeant, M. P. Pato

nucl-tharXiv:nucl-th/0307083

Abstract

We present an approximate analytic expression for thermonuclear reaction rate of charged particles when the cross section contains a single narrow or wide resonance described by a Breit-Wigner shape. The resulting expression is uniformly valid as the effective energy and resonance energy coalesce. We use our expressions to calculate the reaction rate for 12C(p,γ)13N.

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