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    • Relevance of thermally populated first excited state of 44Ti to the abundance problem of cassiopiea A: A model study

      Sukhendusekhar Sarkar

      Nuclear Structure And Dynamics Volume 53 Issue 3 September 1999 pp 469-472

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    • Keywords

       

      Nuclear structure; electron capture; nucleosynthesis; supernova

    • Abstract

       

      We examine the possible role of electron-capture on the thermally populated first 2+ excited state of 44Ti in hot astrophysical environments pertaining to post explosive nucleosynthesis supernova debris. We find in a simple schematic model that the astrophysical weak interaction rate for electron-capture decay of 44Ti can depend considerably on temperature and hence on time. We propose a time varying decay rate for the evolving supernova debris and demonstrate its consequence for the 44Ti mass yield of the supernova Cas A, observed through the measured 1.157 MeV γ-ray flux from the electron-capture decay of 44Ti.

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      Sukhendusekhar Sarkar1

      1. Ananda Mohan College, 102/1, Raja Rammohan Sarani, Calcutta - 700 009, India

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      Published
      September 1999

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