Energy Deconvolution of Cross Section Measurements with an Application to the 12C(\alpha,\gamma)16O Reaction

TL;DR

This paper introduces a general framework for correcting energy averaging effects in charged-particle reaction measurements, demonstrating its application to the 12C(α,γ)16O reaction to improve data accuracy.

Contribution

It presents a novel, comprehensive deconvolution framework for energy averaging effects in nuclear reaction measurements, with practical application to a key astrophysical reaction.

Findings

Effective deconvolution methods for energy averaging effects.

Application to 12C(α,γ)16O reaction data.

Discussion of different deconvolution approaches.

Abstract

A general framework for deconvoluting the effects of energy averaging on charged-particle reaction measurements is presented. There are many potentially correct approaches to the problem; the relative merits of some of are discussed. These deconvolution methods are applied to recent 12C(\alpha,\gamma)16O measurements.