Abstract:
Charged particle-induced radioactive capture reaction is a major topic in nuclear astrophysics, significant to understand stellar nucleosynthesis.At astrophysical temperature (Gamow window), the cross area of these reactions is small, γ ray yields are extremely low, therefore high-efficiency summing γ detection array is needed in cross section measurements.Bayesian analysis was used here to develop an analytical method for γ spectrum of 4π detection array.The method was applied to analyze data of 259 keV resonance of
14N(p, γ)
15O and 304 keV resonance of
25Mg(p, γ)
26Al measured at Jinping Underground Nuclear Astrophysics experimental facility.The new method was found to reduce significantly uncertainty in γ summing peak efficiency.