Production of A=6,7 nuclides in the α+α reaction and cosmic ray nucleosynthesis

David J. Mercer^1,2,*, Sam M. Austin^2,3,†, J. A. Brown^2,‡, S. A. Danczyk^2,3, S. E. Hirzebruch², J. H. Kelley^2,3,§, T. Suomijärvi^2,4, D. A. Roberts⁵, and T. P. Walker^6
1Nuclear Physics Laboratory, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0446
²National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
³Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
⁴Institute de Physique Nucléaire, IN₂P₃-CNRS, F-91406 Orsay, France
⁵Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109
⁶Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210

^*Present address: NIS-5 Group, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 87545; electronic address: mercer@lanl.gov

^†Electronic address: austin@nscl.msu.edu

^‡Present address: Physics Department, Millikin University, Decatur, IL 62522.

^§Present address: Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695.