Investigation of the conditions of validity of the Trojan horse method in nuclear astrophysics

• Grant number: 17/02967-7
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: May 08, 2017
• End date: June 07, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Nuclear Physics
• Principal Investigator: Mahir Saleh Hussein
• Grantee: Mahir Saleh Hussein
• Visiting researcher: Carlos Augusto Bertulani
• Visiting researcher institution: Texas A&M University-Commerce, United States
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/18998-2 - Dynamics of many-body systems III, AP.TEM

Abstract

The Trojan Horse method is used to extract, from the experimental data, cross sections of reactions which are relevant to nucleosynthesis and nuclear astrophysics in general. Processes of the type a + A going to b + (x + A) are measured and used to extract the cross section of the subsystem x + A, which is more difficult to study directly. We plan to investigate the validity of the method within the framework of nuclear reaction theory. (AU)