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The reaction 11B(p,α)αα is the primary mechanism for 11B burning in
the stellar environment, which makes it a reaction of interest in nuclear astrophysics. Additionally, this fusion reaction is also relevant in nuclear fusion reactor development, promising clean energy and relatively simplified reactor engineering. The present work focuses on the cross section measurement of this fusion reaction with proton energies ranging from 300 keV to 2600 keV on the 11B target using the Extreme Light Infrastructure Silicon Strip Array (ELISSA).
In this experiment we observe the reaction populating the α0 and α1 channels from the sequential decay of 12C. The precise measurement of the total cross section of these channels can resolve the discrepancies in the existing measurements and can be further used as reliable input for the abundance calculation.
