25Al+p elastic scattering with CRIB

The present rate of the ²⁵Al(p,γ)²⁶Si reaction suffers from significant uncertainties due to the lack of relevant structure information in the compound nucleus ²⁶Si. An ²⁵Al+p elastic-scattering experiment in inverse kinematics was performed using the CRIB facility at the CNS at the University of Tokyo, Japan, to try and improve current understanding. The ²H(²⁴Mg,n)²⁵Al reaction was used to produce a 7.5 MeV/A ²⁵Al radioactive beam with intensities of ∼ 10⁶ pps at the secondary CH2 target position. Protons were detected in silicon EΔE telescopes and a center-of-mass energy range of 3 MeV was scanned, reaching up to about 8.5 MeV in excitation energy in ²⁶Si. © Copyright owned by the author(s).