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Nuclear Astrophysics from View Point of Few-Body Problems

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Few-body systems provide very useful tools to solve different problems for nuclear astrophysics. This is the case of indirect techniques, developed to overcome some of the limits of direct measurements at astrophysical energies. Here the Coulomb dissociation, the asymptotic normalization coefficient and the Trojan Horse method are discussed.

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  1. Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN, Catania, Italy

    A. Tumino & C. Spitaleri

  2. Università degli Studi di Enna “KORE”, Enna, Italy

    A. Tumino

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy

    C. Spitaleri

  4. Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, TX, USA

    C. Bertulani

  5. Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    A. M. Mukhamedzhanov

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Plenary talk at the 20th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Fukuoka, Japan, 20–25 August 2012.

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Tumino, A., Spitaleri, C., Bertulani, C. et al. Nuclear Astrophysics from View Point of Few-Body Problems. Few-Body Syst 54, 869–875 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-013-0690-5

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