Structure of 8B and astrophysical S17 factor
Abstract
Nuclear structure data are of crucial importance in order to address important astrophysical problems such as the origin of chemical elements, the inner working of our Sun, and the evolution of stars. We demonstrate this by investigating the ground state structure of 8B and 7Be nuclei within the Skyrme Hartree-Fock framework and by calculating the overlap integral of 8B and 7Be wave functions. The latter is used to calculate the astrophysical S factor (S17) for the solar fusion reaction 7Be(p, γ)8B.
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