The Effect of Inelastic Neutron Acceleration by Isomeric Nuclei on the s-Process Nucleosynthesis

Yuri V. Petrov and Alexander I. Shlyakhter

The Astrophysical Journal, 278: 385-387, 1984 March 1

Abstract

We show that the recently discovered reaction of inelastic neutron acceleration by isomeric nuclei (INNA-reaction) can cause a considerable change in the abundances of elements produced by the pulsed s-process. We have chosen ^85mKr branching to demonstrate this effect in more detail.

Keywords: nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, INNA-reaction.