Excited states of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mi>Ca</mml:mi><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mn>39</mml:mn></mml:mmultiscripts></mml:math> and their significance in nova nucleosynthesis
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Abstract
Background: Discrepancies exist between the observed abundances of argon and calcium in oxygen-neon nova ejecta and those predicted by nova models. An improved characterization of the $^{38}\mathrm{K}(p,\ensuremath{\gamma})\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}^{39}\mathrm{Ca}$ reaction rate over the nova temperature regime ($\ensuremath{\sim}0.1--0.4$ GK), and thus the nuclear structure of $^{39}\mathrm{Ca}$ above the proton threshold [5770.92(63) keV], is necessary to resolve these contradictions.Purpose: The present study was performed to search for low-spin proton resonances in the $^{38}\mathrm{K}+p$ system, and to improve the uncertainties in energies of the known astrophysically significant proton resonances in $^{39}\mathrm{Ca}$.Methods: The level structure of $^{39}\mathrm{Ca}$ was investigated via high-resolution charged-particle spectroscopy with an Enge split-pole spectrograph using the $^{40}\mathrm{Ca}(^{3}\mathrm{He},\ensuremath{\alpha})\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}^{39}\mathrm{Ca}$ reaction. Differential cross sections were measured over six laboratory angles at 21 MeV. Distorted-wave Born approximation calculations were performed to constrain the spin-parity assignments of observed levels with special attention to those significant in determination of the $^{38}\mathrm{K}(p,\ensuremath{\gamma})\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}^{39}\mathrm{Ca}$ reaction rate over the nova temperature regime.Results: The resonance energies corresponding to two out of three astrophysically important states at 6154(5) and 6472.2(24) keV are measured with better precision than previous charged-particle spectroscopy measurements. A tentatively new state is discovered at 5908(3) keV. The spin-parity assignments of a few of the astrophysically important resonances are determined.Conclusions: The present $^{38}\mathrm{K}(p,\ensuremath{\gamma})\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}^{39}\mathrm{Ca}$ upper limit thermonuclear reaction rate at 0.1--0.4 GK is higher than that determined by Christian et al. [Phys. Rev. C 97, 025802 (2018)] by at most a factor of 1.4 at 0.1 GK.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".