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Mass measurements of very neutron-deficient Mo and Tc isotopes and their impact on rp process nucleosynthesis

E. Haettner D. Ackermann G. Audi 1 K. Blaum M. Block S. Eliseev T. Fleckenstein F. Herfurth F. P. Heßberger S. Hofmann J. Ketelaer J. Ketter H.-J. Kluge G. Marx M. Mazzocco Yu. N. Novikov W. R. Plaß S. M. Wahidur Rahaman T. Rauscher D. Rodríguez H. Schatz C. Scheidenberger L. Schweikhard B. Sun P. G. Thirolf G. Vorobjev M. Wang C. Weber
1 CSNSM - Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse
Abstract : The masses of ten proton-rich nuclides, including the N=Z+1 nuclides 85-Mo and 87-Tc, were measured with the Penning trap mass spectrometer SHIPTRAP. Compared to the Atomic Mass Evaluation 2003 a systematic shift of the mass surface by up to 1.6 MeV is observed causing significant abundance changes of the ashes of astrophysical X-ray bursts. Surprisingly low alpha-separation energies for neutron-deficient Mo and Tc are found, making the formation of a ZrNb cycle in the rp process possible. Such a cycle would impose an upper temperature limit for the synthesis of elements beyond Nb in the rp process.
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E. Haettner, D. Ackermann, G. Audi, K. Blaum, M. Block, et al.. Mass measurements of very neutron-deficient Mo and Tc isotopes and their impact on rp process nucleosynthesis. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2011, 106 (12), pp.122501 ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.122501⟩. ⟨in2p3-00596112⟩

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