Mario Weigand, Todd Allen Bredeweg, Aaron Couture, Kathrin Göbel, Tanja Heftrich, Marian Jandel, Franz Käppeler, Claudia Lederer, Nikolay Kivel, Gunther Korschinek, Milan Krtička, John M. O’Donnell, Jennifer Ostermöller, Ralf Plag, René Reifarth, Dorothea Schumann, John Leonard Ullmann, Anton Wallner
- The neutron capture cross section of the s-process branch nucleus 63Ni affects the abundances of other nuclei in its region, especially 63Cu and 64Zn. In order to determine the energy-dependent neutron capture cross section in the astrophysical energy region, an experiment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory has been performed using the calorimetric 4πBaF2 array DANCE. The (n,γ) cross section of 63Ni has been determined relative to the well-known 197Au standard with uncertainties below 15%. Various 63Ni resonances have been identified based on the Q value. Furthermore, the s-process sensitivity of the new values was analyzed with the new network calculation tool NETZ.
