Publication Type
Journal
Journal Name
Physical Review C
Publication Date
Page Number
065802
Volume
81
Issue
1
Abstract
The 14O(α,p)17F reaction is an important trigger reaction leading to the αp process in x-ray bursts. The inclusion
of reaction channels populating excited 17F levels may significantly increase the calculated 14O(α,p)17F reaction
rate. A radioactive 17F beam was used at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam
Facility to search for a 18Ne resonance at Ec.m.(17F + p) 3.1MeV that had been previously suggested to decay
strongly to the first excited level in 17F. No evidence, however, of inelastic 17F + p scattering was observed at
this energy, and an upper limit of ∼10 mb has been set on the inelastic-scattering cross section.
