An overview of the ¹⁹F(p,α₀)¹⁶ O reaction with direct methods

The study of the ¹⁹F(p,α)¹⁶O reaction at low energy is important both for Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics. Despite of its importance, the S-factor of this reaction is poorly known, especially at astrophysical energies. We present an overview of the ¹⁹F(p,α₀)¹⁶O reaction cross section, as obtained from recent direct measurements and from published works in the literature. We include in the systematic also data from an unpublished work, where several excitation functions and angular distributions for α₀ and α_π channels are reported.