Pe. Koehler et al., CL-36 (N,P)S-36 CROSS-SECTION FROM 25 MEV TO 800 KEV AND THE NUCLEOSYNTHESIS OF THE RARE ISOTOPE S-36, Physical review. C. Nuclear physics, 47(5), 1993, pp. 2107-2112
We have measured the (Cl(n,p)S)-Cl-36-S-36 cross section from thermal
energy to approximately 800 keV. Parameters for eight resonances betwe
en 900 eV and 70 keV were determined in a multilevel fit to our data w
hich also included information from published (S(p, gamma)Cl)-S-36-Cl-
37 measurements. The (Cl(n,p)S)-Cl-36-S-36 reaction can play a critica
l role in the production of the rare isotope S-36 in explosive nucleos
ynthesis and s-process calculations. The astrophysical rate for this r
eaction was calculated from our measured cross sections and was found
to be significantly smaller than the theoretical rate used in previous
nucleosynthesis calculations. We discuss the impact of this result on
the nucleosynthesis of S-36.