https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01872-4
Regular Article
The 
reaction at astrophysical energies studied by means of the Trojan Horse Method applied to the 
reaction
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, 06123, Perugia, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, 06123, Perugia, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, 95123, Catania, Italy
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Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay, UMR8608, IN2P3-CNRS, Université Paris Sud 11, 91406, Orsay, France
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Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, A.P. 20-364, 01000, Mexico City, Mexico
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Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 250 68, Řež, Czech Republic
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana”, Università degli Studi di Catania, 95123, Catania, Italy
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Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Institute for Nuclear Research (ATOMKI), POB.51, 4001, Debrecen, Hungary
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Facoltà di Ingegneria e Architettura, Università degli Studi “Kore”, 94100, Enna, Italy
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Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, RIKEN Campus, 351-0198, Wako, Saitama, Japan
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Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, 80131, Naples, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, 80126, Naples, Italy
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Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)/Horia Hulubei National R&D Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Padova, 35131, Padova, Italy
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Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, 35131, Padova, Italy
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Scoala Doctorala de Ingineria si Aplicatiile Laserilor si Acceleratorilor, Politehnica University, Bucharest, Romania
Received:
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January
2021
Accepted:
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August
2021
Published online:
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September
2021
The reaction, which drives the destruction of 
Al and the production of 
in stellar hydrogen burning, has been investigated via the Trojan Horse Method (THM), by measuring the three-body reaction. The experiment covered a broad energy range (
), aiming to investigate those of interest for astrophysics. The results confirm the THM as a valuable technique for the experimental study of fusion reactions at very low energies and suggest the presence of a rich pattern of resonances in the energy region close to the Gamow window of stellar hydrogen burning (70–120 keV), with potential impact on astrophysics. To estimate such an impact a second run of the experiment is needed, since the background due the three-body reaction hampered to collect enough data to resolve the resonant structures and extract the reaction rate.
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