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The $^3$He$(\alpha,\gamma)^7$Be radiative capture reaction plays a key role in the creation of elements in stars as well as in the production of solar neutrinos, the observation of which is one of the main tools to study the properties of…
Nuclear fusion reactions at sub-barrier energies play crucial roles in many aspects of primordial nucleosynthesis in stellar objects. One of the primary aspects that plays a pivotal role in understanding the relationship between stellar…
Differential cross sections for $^3$He-$\alpha$ scattering were measured in the energy range up to 3 MeV. These data together with other available experimental results for $^3$He $+ \alpha$ and $^3$H $+ \alpha$ scattering were analyzed in…
The cross sections of the $^3$He($\alpha$,$\alpha$)$^3$He and $^3$He($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^7$Be reactions are studied at low energies using a simple two-body model in combination with a double-folding potential. At very low energies the…
The ${^3{\rm He}}(\alpha,\gamma){^7{\rm Be}}$ and ${^3{\rm H}}(\alpha,\gamma){^7{\rm Li}}$ astrophysical $S$ factors are calculated within the no-core shell model with continuum using a renormalized chiral nucleon-nucleon interaction. The…
Within the newly updated version of the Ultra-relativistic quantum molecular dynamics (UrQMD) model in which the Skyrme potential energy-density functional is introduced, the yield ratio between $^3$H and $^3$He clusters emitted from…
Astrophysical $S$ factors and reaction rates of the direct radiative capture processes $^{3}{\rm He}(\alpha, \gamma)^{7}{\rm Be}$ and $^{3}{\rm H}(\alpha,\gamma)^{7}{\rm Li}$, as well as the primordial abundance of the $^{7}{\rm Li}$…
We present a new accurate analysis of the $^3$He$(p,e^+\nu_e)$${}^4$He (''hep'') reaction at astrophysical energies. The S-factor is computed using a state-of-the-art method to calculate the four-nucleon scattering and bound-state wave…
The $^3$He($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^7$Be reaction is a widely studied nuclear reaction; however, it is still not understood with the required precision. It has a great importance both in Big Bang nucleosynthesis and in solar hydrogen burning.…
Measurements of the elastic scattering cross section of 3He and 4He are important in order to improve constraints on theoretical models of 4He(3He,g)7Be, a key reaction in Big Bang nucleosynthesis and solar neutrino production. The…
Previous studies of the reaction ${}^{3}\mathrm{He} +{}^{4}\mathrm{He} \rightarrow {}^{7}\mathrm{Be} + \gamma$ have focused on providing the best central value and error bar for the $S$ factor at solar energies. Measurements of this capture…
The $^3$He($\alpha$,$\gamma$)$^7$Be reaction plays a major role both in the BBN producing the majority of the primordial $^7$Li, and in the pp-chain, where it is the branching point. As a few-nucleon system, this reaction is often used to…
The electromagnetic dipole transitions in $^7$Be($p,\gamma$)$^8$B and $^7$Li($n,\gamma$)$^8$Li reactions at the keV-energy region were analyzed simultaneously within the Skyrme Hartree-Fock potential model. The Skyrme Hartree-Fock…
We study the nonresonant part of the $^7$Be($p,\gamma$)$^8$B reaction using a three-cluster resonating group model that is variationally converged and virtually complete in the $^4$He+$^3$He+$p$ model space. The importance of using adequate…
We developed a hierarchical Bayesian framework to estimate S-factors and thermonuclear rates for the $^3$He(d,p)$^{4}$He reaction, which impacts the primordial abundances of $^3$He and $^7$Li. The available data are evaluated and all direct…
The reaction rates of the direct astrophysical capture processes $^{3}{\rm He}(\alpha, \gamma)^{7}{\rm Be}$ and $^{3}{\rm H}(\alpha,\gamma)^{7}{\rm Li}$, as well as the abundance of the $^{7}{\rm Li}$ element are estimated in the framework…
The astrophysical $^{3}{\rm He}(\alpha, \gamma)^{7}{\rm Be}$ and $^{3}{\rm H}(\alpha, \gamma)^{7}{\rm Li}$ direct capture processes are studied in the framework of the two-body model with the potentials of a simple Gaussian form, which…
A new analysis of the precise experimental astrophysical $S$-factors for the direct capture $^3He(\alpha,\gamma)^7{\rm {Be}}$ reaction [B.S. Nara Singh et al., Phys.Rev.Lett. {\bf 93} (2004) 262503; D. Bemmerer et al., Phys.Rev.Lett. {\bf…
Recent astronomical data have provided the primordial deuterium abundance with percent precision. As a result, Big Bang nucleosynthesis may provide a constraint on the universal baryon to photon ratio that is as precise as, but independent…
We discuss results and future plans for low-energy reactions that play an important role in current nuclear astrophysics research and that happen to concentrate around the region of A=7. The 7Be(p,gamma)8B and the 3He(4He,gamma)7Be…