IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v14y2023i1d10.1038_s41467-023-40121-3.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Search for 22Na in novae supported by a novel method for measuring femtosecond nuclear lifetimes

Author

Listed:
  • Chloé Fougères

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3
    Argonne National Laboratory)

  • François Oliveira Santos

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3)

  • Jordi José

    (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya)

  • Caterina Michelagnoli

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3
    Institut Laue-Langevin)

  • Emmanuel Clément

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3)

  • Yung Hee Kim

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3
    Institute for Basic Science)

  • Antoine Lemasson

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3)

  • Valdir Guimarães

    (Universidade de São Paulo)

  • Diego Barrientos

    (CERN)

  • Daniel Bemmerer

    (Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research)

  • Giovanna Benzoni

    (Sezione di Milano)

  • Andrew J. Boston

    (University of Liverpool)

  • Roman Böttger

    (Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research)

  • Florent Boulay

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3)

  • Angela Bracco

    (Sezione di Milano)

  • Igor Čeliković

    (University of Belgrade)

  • Bo Cederwall

    (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

  • Michał Ciemala

    (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)

  • Clément Delafosse

    (Université Paris-Saclay)

  • César Domingo-Pardo

    (CSIC-Universidad de Valencia)

  • Jérémie Dudouet

    (IP2I Lyon, UMR 5822)

  • Jürgen Eberth

    (Universität zu Köln)

  • Zsolt Fülöp

    (Institute for Nuclear Research (ATOMKI))

  • Vicente González

    (Universitat de Valencia)

  • Andrea Gottardo

    (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro INFN)

  • Johan Goupil

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3)

  • Herbert Hess

    (Universität zu Köln)

  • Andrea Jungclaus

    (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC)

  • Ayşe Kaşkaş

    (Ankara University)

  • Amel Korichi

    (Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Silvia M. Lenzi

    (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
    Universitá degli Studi di Padova)

  • Silvia Leoni

    (Sezione di Milano
    Università di Milano)

  • Hongjie Li

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3)

  • Joa Ljungvall

    (Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Araceli Lopez-Martens

    (Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Roberto Menegazzo

    (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova)

  • Daniele Mengoni

    (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
    Universitá degli Studi di Padova)

  • Benedicte Million

    (Sezione di Milano)

  • Jaromír Mrázek

    (Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

  • Daniel R. Napoli

    (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro INFN)

  • Alahari Navin

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3)

  • Johan Nyberg

    (Uppsala University)

  • Zsolt Podolyák

    (University of Surrey)

  • Alberto Pullia

    (Sezione di Milano
    Università di Milano)

  • Begoña Quintana

    (Universidad de Salamanca)

  • Damien Ralet

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3
    Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Nadine Redon

    (IP2I Lyon, UMR 5822)

  • Peter Reiter

    (Universität zu Köln)

  • Kseniia Rezynkina

    (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
    Université de Strasbourg, CNRS)

  • Frédéric Saillant

    (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3)

  • Marie-Delphine Salsac

    (Irfu, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Angel M. Sánchez-Benítez

    (University of Huelva)

  • Enrique Sanchis

    (Universitat de Valencia)

  • Menekşe Şenyiğit

    (Ankara University)

  • Marco Siciliano

    (Argonne National Laboratory
    Irfu, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Nadezda A. Smirnova

    (Université de Bordeaux, CNRS/IN2P3, LP2IB)

  • Dorottya Sohler

    (Institute for Nuclear Research (ATOMKI))

  • Mihai Stanoiu

    (Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, IFIN-HH Bucharest)

  • Christophe Theisen

    (Irfu, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay)

  • Jose J. Valiente-Dobón

    (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro INFN)

  • Predrag Ujić

    (University of Belgrade)

  • Magdalena Zielińska

    (Irfu, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay)

Abstract

Classical novae are thermonuclear explosions in stellar binary systems, and important sources of 26Al and 22Na. While γ rays from the decay of the former radioisotope have been observed throughout the Galaxy, 22Na remains untraceable. Its half-life (2.6 yr) would allow the observation of its 1.275 MeV γ-ray line from a cosmic source. However, the prediction of such an observation requires good knowledge of its nucleosynthesis. The 22Na(p, γ)23Mg reaction remains the only source of large uncertainty about the amount of 22Na ejected. Its rate is dominated by a single resonance on the short-lived state at 7785.0(7) keV in 23Mg. Here, we propose a combined analysis of particle-particle correlations and velocity-difference profiles to measure femtosecond nuclear lifetimes. The application of this method to the study of the 23Mg states, places strong limits on the amount of 22Na produced in novae and constrains its detectability with future space-borne observatories.

Suggested Citation

  • Chloé Fougères & François Oliveira Santos & Jordi José & Caterina Michelagnoli & Emmanuel Clément & Yung Hee Kim & Antoine Lemasson & Valdir Guimarães & Diego Barrientos & Daniel Bemmerer & Giovanna B, 2023. "Search for 22Na in novae supported by a novel method for measuring femtosecond nuclear lifetimes," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-40121-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40121-3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40121-3
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/s41467-023-40121-3?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-40121-3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.