Revisiting the 3α reaction rates in helium burning stars

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Depastas, Theodoros, Sun, Shuting, Heb, Hongbin, Zheng, Hua, Bonasera, Aldo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910392766169088
author Depastas, Theodoros
Sun, Shuting
Heb, Hongbin
Zheng, Hua
Bonasera, Aldo
author_facet Depastas, Theodoros
Sun, Shuting
Heb, Hongbin
Zheng, Hua
Bonasera, Aldo
contents Helium burning is one of the most fundamental steps of stellar nucleosynthesis, as it describes the formation of life-determining element of carbon, while it plays a key role in the evolution of Red Giant, accreting White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars. In this work we develop a generalized statistical theory for the 3α reaction, which is based on the use of the Imaginary Time Method, along with the semi-classical Hybrid α-Clustering (HαC) and Neck Model (NM) frameworks. The results compared to the methodology and data of the NACRE collaboration, following in several orders of magnitude discrepancies, especially at low temperatures. This may be crucial for the early dynamics of helium burning stars.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2404_00454
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Revisiting the 3α reaction rates in helium burning stars
Depastas, Theodoros
Sun, Shuting
Heb, Hongbin
Zheng, Hua
Bonasera, Aldo
Nuclear Theory
Helium burning is one of the most fundamental steps of stellar nucleosynthesis, as it describes the formation of life-determining element of carbon, while it plays a key role in the evolution of Red Giant, accreting White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars. In this work we develop a generalized statistical theory for the 3α reaction, which is based on the use of the Imaginary Time Method, along with the semi-classical Hybrid α-Clustering (HαC) and Neck Model (NM) frameworks. The results compared to the methodology and data of the NACRE collaboration, following in several orders of magnitude discrepancies, especially at low temperatures. This may be crucial for the early dynamics of helium burning stars.
title Revisiting the 3α reaction rates in helium burning stars
topic Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00454