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In the past decade, research into low-energy nuclear reactions has entered a new era in heavy ion storage rings. At the GSI rings ESR and CRYRING we are now able to conduct reaction cross section measurements with decelerated radioactive beams. In this talk I will give an overview of the different experimental campaignes that address astrophysical problems in this context.
One of these initiatives is the proton-capture campaign in the ESR, which aims to directly measure proton-induced reactions of key importance for explosive nucleosynthesis. In the latest experiment, we successfully applied this technique to a radioactive beam for the first time.
Another project is CARME, a setup that has recently been installed and commissioned in CRYRING. This versatile array of Si-detectors surrounding the internal gas target enables a wide range of low-energy studies with radioactive beams to be pursued.
Recent results and developments as well as future plans within those projects will be discussed.