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AIP Conf. Proc. / Volume 972 / Issue 1

Recent Applications of the THM to the AGB Star Nucleosynthesis

AIP Conf. Proc. -- January 24, 2008 -- Volume 972, pp. 485-489
EXOTIC NUCLEI AND NUCLEAR/PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS (II): Proceedings of the Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2007; doi:10.1063/1.2870410

Issue Date: 24 January 2008

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ABSTRACT

M. La Cognata,^a C. Spitaleri,^a R. Tribble,^b T. Al-Abdullah,^b A. Banu,^b S. Cherubini,^a V. Crucillà,^a C. Fu,^b V. Goldberg,^b M. Gulino,^a L. Lamia,^a A. M. Mukhamedzhanov,^b R. G. Pizzone,^a S. M. R. Puglia,^a G. G. Rapisarda,^a S. Romano,^a M. L. Sergi,^a G. Tabacaru,^b L. Trache,^b A. Tumino,^a and Y. Zhai^b
^aIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud and Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
^bCyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

TheTHM has been applied to the study of reactions involvedin the fluorine production in AGB stars with the aimof extending these measurements down to the Gamow peak. Fluorineabundance is important since it allows to constrain mixing modelsfrom the comparison of the observed fluorine abundances with theones predicted by models. In particular the study focuses onthe ¹⁵N(p, alpha