Upper Limit on the molecular resonance strengths in the<sup>12</sup>C+<sup>12</sup>C fusion reaction
Upper Limit on the molecular resonance strengths in the<sup>12</sup>C+<sup>12</sup>C fusion reaction
Carbon burning is a crucial process for a number of important astrophysical scenarios. The lowest measured energy is around Ec.m. =2.1 MeV, only partially overlapping with the energy range of astrophysical interest. The currently adopted reaction rates are based on an extrapolation which is highly uncertain because of potential resonances …