- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Understanding the nucleosynthesis and energy generation in quiescent and explosive stellar burning requires a detailed understanding of reaction rates on many unstable nuclides. Such reaction rates are often governed by the properties of low-lying, isolated proton resonances. Though direct measurements of resonance strengths are ultimately desired, and are a focus of rare isotope beam facilities worldwide, such tour-de-force experiments must be guided by indirect techniques, in order to know resonance energies,
1 Introduction
Astrophysical radiative proton-capture reaction rates are often governed by the properties of low-lying discrete proton resonances. In order to constrain the astrophysical reaction rate, the location and strengths of these resonances must be known. However, as the reaction network typically involves short-lived nuclides, complete measurements of proton excitation functions over the astrophysically-important energy range on many important nuclides are not within reach. Consequently, only the most important resonances must be targeted for direct measurement of their strengths. To this end, recoil separators optimized for measuring radiative-capture reactions from isolated resonances in inverse kinematics have been developed across the globe, including the DRAGON recoil separator at TRIUMF, the Daresbury Recoil Separator at the (now closed) Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility (HRIBF), the St George separator at the Nuclear Science Laboratory at Notre Dame, and most recently the SECAR recoil separator at the nascent Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).
Though ultimately such direct measurements of resonance strengths are desired, indirect techniques are needed to initially locate and constrain the resonances, so that the most important resonances can be identified. Furthermore, in some cases, important low-energy resonances are too weak for direct radiative-capture reaction measurements with radioactive beams in the foreseeable future; in these cases, indirect techniques are the only way of ascertaining these resonance strengths. Various direct reactions, such as single-particle transfer and charge-exchange reactions, have long been employed for this purpose. The reaction can be chosen to selectively populate certain states (such as states of strong single-particle character, or those of low spin). Such reactions can provide resonance energies, determine the proton orbital angular momenta
In recent years, as focus shifted toward reactions of radioactive nuclides, which dominate the reaction network in explosive nucleosynthesis, instrumentation and techniques for performing direct reactions in inverse kinematics with radioactive beams have been advanced. There have been a number of excellent reviews of recent progress [1–4]. Herein, some specific developments are reviewed in the context of the silicon detector array ORRUBA (Section 3.1), encompassing the GODDESS coupling to the large germanium detector arrays Gammasphere and GRETINA (Section 3.2), and utilization of new opportunities in rare isotope beam delivery enabling reaction measurements on beams in isomeric states (Section 5).
The manuscript is organized as follows. In Section 2, the formalism of radiative-capture reactions though isolated resonances is outlined. In Section 3, the ORRUBA/GODDESS instrumentation for the measurement of direct reactions is discussed. Following this, Section 4 details some methods by which direct reactions can be used to constrain resonance strengths. Section 5 outlines recent efforts and opportunities aimed at constraining reactions on nuclei in isomeric states. Finally, in Section 6, a number of astrophysically-motivated cases are discussed, pertaining to proton-induced nucleosynthesis in massive stars, novae and x-ray bursts. These cases all involve odd-odd
2 Radiative-capture reactions through isolated resonances
Though direct measurements of radiative-capture reactions on radioactive nuclides are ultimately desired, the limited intensities and high cost associated with radioactive beams makes the measurement of complete excitation functions across the Gamow window unfeasible. However, at the low temperatures associated with quiescent stellar burning, and the hot CNO cycle and breakout into the rp process in novae, radiative-capture rates are often dominated by capture through isolated low-lying discrete resonances. In an astrophysical environment of temperature
where
Here,
Rather than measure the complete excitation function over the Gamow window, it is therefore possible to target only the most important resonances, and sum their contributions as a function of temperature, to obtain the total reaction rate. Though this substantially reduces amount of experimental data needed, to just measurements of the strength of a handful of important resonances, it introduces a problem that the resonances (and hence the bombarding energies at which to measure) are not known a priori. It is therefore critical that the energies and approximate strengths of resonances in the vicinity of the Gamow window must first be identified, such that direct measurements can subsequently target only those resonances anticipated to contribute appreciably to the astrophysical reaction rate.
It can be seen from Equation 2 that determining the energies of resonances in the proximity of the Gamow window is the most crucial component, as this highlights which states may contribute, and constrains their contribution due to the exponential dependence on resonance energy. Having determined resonance energies, further constraints on
Though there are numerous ways in which resonances can be identified and their strengths constrained, direct reactions, such as transfer and charge-exchange reactions, provide a number of benefits [1, 3], including being able to constrain energies, spins, and ultimately strengths of multiple resonances in a single measurement. Level energies can be determined, either through two-body reaction kinematics or, often more precisely, via the detection of de-excitation
3 Direct reaction instrumentation
Using direct reactions with radioactive beams to constrain astrophysical reaction rates has been a major focus of the astrophysics program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory over the last two decades. Stemming from the astrophysics program at the HRIBF, charged-particle detectors for radioactive-beam experiments have been developed in collaborations based at ORNL, including silicon detector arrays optimized for inverse-kinematics experiments (the SIDAR array of YY1 detectors [5], based on the LEDA design [6], followed by the development of ORRUBA [7, 8]), and fast ionization chambers for the detection and identification of beam-like recoils [9]. Since the closure of the HRIBF over a decade ago, these detectors have been deployed at various facilities across the US, coupled to the large semiconductor
3.1 ORRUBA
ORRUBA [7] is a high-solid-angle silicon detector array designed for the measurement of charged-particle reactions with radioactive beams. The position sensitivity of the array, which amounts to approximately 1
In more recent years, the X3 detectors have been replaced with sX3 detectors (Figure 1), which include 4-fold non-resistive segmentation on the Ohmic contact, for improved energy resolution. Concurrently, the YY1 lampshade was replaced by an annular QQQ5 detector endcap to the sX3 barrel [8, 10], resulting in a more compact array, with near seamless polar angular coverage, enabling the array to be mounted inside major
ORRUBA operates as a standalone detector using a fast ionization chamber as a recoil detector (Section 3.3), coupled to recoil separators such as the S800 at FRIB, and operates as the main particle detector for the JENSA gas-jet target [11, 12].
3.2 GODDESS
For many direct-reaction measurements, the detection of
Motivated by these advantages, there has been much investment across the globe in couplings of high-resolution and high-efficiency charged-particle and
GODDESS [18] (Pain et al., forthcoming) is a coupling of an upgraded version of ORRUBA to the large semiconductor

Figure 1. Photograph of ORRUBA, showing two complete rings of sX3 Si detectors, deployed at ReA (beam direction right-to-left). The Si signals are taken out of vacuum immediately to air-cooled preamplifier boxes (removed in photo), mounted from the preamplifier ring in the downstream direction.

Figure 2. Photograph of GODDESS, deployed with GRETINA at ATLAS at Argonne National Laboratory (beam direction left-to-right). The 720-channels of Si signals are taken out of vacuum immediately to air-cooled preamplifier boxes, in the downstream direction. The beam-right hemisphere of GRETINA is retracted for access.
In preparation for the deployment of GRETA at FRIB, at the time of writing GODDESS is being upgraded. A slightly smaller configuration, with new endcap detectors and a new vacuum chamber, will allow compatibility with the nearly full implementation of GRETA. This will provide a quasi-4
3.3 MAGIC
For inverse-kinematics experiments with radioactive beams, detection and identification of the beam-like recoil is often desirable. Firstly, RIBs are often delivered with contaminants, so event-by-event identification of the recoil is needed to associate reaction ejectiles with the beam constituent of interest. Secondly, reactions are often performed on targets with undesired elements (such as the carbon component of polyethylene and deuterated polyethylene targets). Reactions on these nuclides, such as fusion-evaporation reactions, result in substantially different recoils (both nuclide and energy), which can be readily separated by measurement of the beam-like recoil downstream of the target.
Though recoil separators provide numerous benefits for recoil detection, they are not always available, or necessary. Furthermore, their use is complicated in many cases by the energy, angle and charge-state distributions of beam-like recoils after the reaction target. Alternatively, for beam intensities below
Conventional transverse-field gridded ionization chambers have been used as zero-degree detectors (e.g., [26]), but they are rate limited to
Because the foils provide too much dead material for this design to be used for low-energy ions (such as in the 5–10 MeV/u direct-reaction experiments discussed herein), an axial-field ionization chamber was built in support of the ORRUBA program. This detector was based upon the concept of the TEGIC detector, but replaced the foils with a series of high-transmission wire grids (using
Subsequently, a number of other axial-field ionization chamber detectors have been built upon the wire-grid design, incorporating various improvements. A more compact tilted-grid ionization chamber was built, to operate in the much more confined space of GODDESS [18]. An ionization chamber for ANASEN [28] simplified the design by removing the tilt from the grids, and along with it broadening due to tilted windows and asymmetric dead gas lengths, with minimal impact on resolution or count rate capacity [29]. This larger detector also introduced individual wire readout on the entrance anodes, with the rotation of the grids oriented for XY measurement of position of the ion as it enters the detector, with 3 mm resolution. The TRIFIC detector [30] was developed at TRIUMF, using the tilted-grid approach, but biasing the anodes and cathodes symmetrically (rather than grounding the cathodes) for reduced fringe-field effects and enabling operation at higher electric fields.
The most recent detector in this series, MAGIC (Multi Axial-field Gridded Ionization Chamber), is purposefully built for GODDESS (Pain et al., forthcoming). In order to operate in the small space available, while maintaining maximum acceptance and easy reconfiguration, the perpendicular grids are self-supporting and stacked using electric headers (see Figure 3), which provide both mechanical support, and electrical connections from each of the grids to the back flange, where signals are brought out of vacuum. This design makes the detector easily adjustable and serviceable. In this detector, the front two anodes use individual wire readout, for XY position measurement, with 2 mm resolution. The remaining anode signals are brought out of vacuum individually, and can easily be recombined (via a custom preamplifier motherboard) to optimize the anode groupings for particle identification. Furthermore, this is the first detector that provides readout of the cathode signal in addition to the anodes, which facilitates gain matching and improved sensitivity (Pain et al., forthcoming).

Figure 3. Photograph of the self-supporting grids of the MAGIC detector (see text). The wires (2 mm pitch) of the first two anodes are read out individually, for XY position measurement of incident ions.
4 Using transfer reactions to constrain resonance strengths
This section highlights some manners in which direct reactions can be utilized to constrain resonance strengths, illustrated by some specific examples from ORRUBA/GODDESS experiments.
4.1 Constraining resonance strengths by determination of resonance energies
To constrain the reaction rate from a single isolated low-lying resonance, three things are needed: the resonance energy
The combination of high resolution charged-particle and
In this approach, it is not important whether the reaction proceeds via the component of the wavefunction important for the capture reaction; that is, the resonance strength is not constrained from the cross sections, only by the energy and
4.2 Constraining resonance strengths by measuring spectroscopic factors
For low-lying resonances,
where
In the absence of further information, the maximum strength of a pure single-particle resonance at
The proton width of a given resonance is further dependent on the overlap between the many-body nuclear wavefunction of the resonance and the pure single-proton wavefunction - i.e., the proton spectroscopic factor,
The many-body wavefunction is, a priori, unknown for a given resonance. However, it can be constrained by a nuclear structure model, such as shell-model calculations, or ideally by experimental data, such as from a transfer reaction [3].
The proportionality between cross sections (i.e., spectroscopic factors) from proton-transfer reactions and radiative proton direct-capture [36] and resonant capture reactions [33, 37, 38] is documented. It is important to note that in the extraction of resonance strengths from transfer reactions, the same potential should be used for the calculation of the transfer-reaction cross sections as for the calculation of the single-particle proton widths, as was suggested by the late John Schiffer [32]. Particularly, a strong dependency between the geometry of the single-particle binding potential and reaction cross sections is well known; providing a consistent potential is employed between the two reactions, much of the uncertainty associated with this potential choice cancels [32, 39–41].
The use of transfer reactions to obtain resonance strengths has a number of advantages. Firstly, it can be used to study multiple resonances in a single measurement. Secondly, because the transfer reactions are measured at energies above the Coulomb barrier (typically, several MeV/u upward), the cross sections are not hindered by barrier penetrability. This allows transfer reactions to be used to study very low-lying resonances that are out of reach for direct measurements in the foreseeable future.
4.3 Benchmarking resonance strengths from (d,p) against direct (p, ) measurements
Though proton-transfer reactions, such as (3He,d) and (d,n), are the reactions of choice for extracting proton spectroscopic factors, the application of these reactions to experiments in inverse kinematics with radioactive beams remains a challenge. Both (3He,d) and (d,n) reactions are experimentally complicated, by target requirements and the complexities of spectroscopic neutron detection, respectively. Recently, the technique of measuring angle-integrated cross sections by γ-ray tagging the final state, such as a number of recent measurements using GRETINA and the S800 [42, 43], has been employed. Though this approach can be effective, it relies on knowledge of proton-
However, the isospin independence of the nuclear force can be exploited to constrain proton spectroscopic factors from their neutron counterparts, by using the mirrored reaction (for example, the (d,p) reaction) to extract neutron spectroscopic factors for the equivalent state in the mirror system. There are several experimental advantages to using this technique of measuring (d,p) on proton-rich nuclei, including simple targets, high particle-detection efficiency that is well understood, a compact setup that can be fielded with large germanium detector arrays, and positive Q values which reduce kinematic compression in inverse-kinematic stripping reactions. This approach has been benchmarked for a number of astrophysically-interesting cases in the
Furthermore, a number of astrophysically-interesting nuclides for proton capture lie on or close to the
More recently (d,p) experiments using radioactive 26Al beams have been used to determine the strengths of resonances out of current reach of direct (p,
When constraining resonance strengths via mirror symmetry, it is important to note that the mirror states in the two systems lie at different energies with respect to the separation energy. For example, the low-lying resonances in the 26Al + p system lie hundreds of keV above
5 Opportunities with isomeric beams
There is a growing understanding of the importance that isomers play in astrophysical reaction networks (astromers) [46, 56–62], impacting reaction flow and effective lifetimes, in scenarios ranging from massive stars, to novae, supernovae, and r-process nucleosythesis [44, 46, 63, 64]. For example, many odd-odd

Table 1. Properties of the ground and isomeric states in odd-odd nuclides in the

Figure 4. Simplified reaction network for nova nucleosythesis, omitting
The lack of information on reaction cross sections on isomers in radioactive nuclides presents a particular challenge. Beam production techniques typically populate both the ground state (GS) and isomeric state (IS) of such nuclides. However, in general, the ratio is difficult to predict or control without undesired impacts on other beam properties.
5.1 Production and control of mixed GS:IS beams at FRIB
Recent developments at the ReA facility at FRIB are enabling the delivery of beams containing isomeric states in which the GS:IS composition can be controlled without impact on the other properties of the reaccelerated beam [65, 66]. This is achieved by completely stopping the fragmentation beam, and reaccelerating it to energies appropriate for either direct measurements at astrophysical energies, or to Coulomb-barrier energies that are appropriate for indirect techniques for constraining astrophysical reaction rates, such as direct reactions. The GS:IS ratio of the reaccelerated beam can be controlled by two mechanisms. Firstly, the tuning of the fragment separator can be employed to change the GS:IS content of the fragmentation beam before stopping and reacceleration. Secondly, if the lifetimes of the two states are conducive, the adjustable hold-up times in the reacceleration system can be used to further modify the GS:IS composition of the reaccelerated beam. Crucially, because of the stopping and reacceleration, the final beam properties (energy, emittance, etc.) are largely isolated from these adjustments to the GS:IS ratio. These two mechanisms are discussed in Section 5.1.1 and Section 5.1.2.
5.1.1 Selection by fragment momentum
In general, projectile fragmentation populates nuclei in an ensemble of excited states, which subsequently
5.1.2 Selection by lifetime
In addition to the spin selectivity obtainable by the tuning of the fragment separator, the content of the reaccelerated beam is subject to the holdup times inherent to the ReA system. If one or both of the lifetimes of GS or IS is comparable to the range of available hold-up times, the content of the reaccelerated beam can be manipulated by adjusting the hold-up time. The reacceleration process involves stopping the fragmentation beam in a gas stopper, preparing the ions in a cooler-buncher trap, and charge-breeding the ions in an electron-beam ion trap (EBIT), before reacceleration in the ReA linac. In this process, the ions spend an equal amount of time in the cooler-buncher and EBIT; this time is adjustable, in the range of 10s of ms to seconds. By setting this holdup time based on the lifetime of the ground and/or isomeric states involved, the composition of the beam can be adjusted by controlling how much of each species is allowed to
• Beams at ReA can be delivered at energies spanning direct astrophysics measurements (100s of keV/u to a few MeV/u) to transfer-reactions (5–15 MeV/u).
• The high-quality reaccelerated beam emittance (
• Data can be acquired with two different GS:IS beam compositions without affecting other properties of the reaccelerated beam. This enables a straightforward deconvolution of the GS and IS yields, without having to account for additional changes to the experimental response.
5.1.3 Production of pure isomeric beams
In addition, it is possible to produce certain beams almost entirely in one either of isomeric state or ground state, by taking advantage of the selectivity of
6 The odd-odd N = Z sd-shell nuclides
This section highlights the usage of the techniques and instrumentation described above to determine astrophysical reaction rates due to isolated proton resonances, on nuclides in ground and isomeric states. These examples are located within a region of the nuclear chart (the odd-odd
Figure 4 shows a simplified reaction network for nova nucleosynthesis, including the hot CNO cycle and breakout reactions into the rp process. The odd-odd
The situation is further complicated because many of these
6.1 The 18F(p, )19Ne reaction
Understanding the reaction flow breaking out of the hot CNO cycle, and the abundance of 18F produced in novae (a major source of 511-keV radiation, and hence a potential prompt
More recently, uncertainties in this reaction rate stemming from uncertainties in the energies of low-lying resonances 19Ne have been addressed, using the 19F(3He,
6.2 The 22Na(p, )23Na reaction
The radioisotope 22Na is one of the most promising targets of discrete
The 22Na(p,
Because of this, and its astrophysical importance, the 205-keV (7/2)+ resonance has also been the subject of a number of indirect studies, based on measurements of branching ratios of this state, fed by
However, in all the
A detailed systematic study of the spectroscopic strengths of single-proton states in 23Mg would considerably enlighten the situation, as the large variations in resonance strengths correspond to equally large variations in proton spectroscopic factors for these states, as in Equation 3. Though some proton spectroscopic factors have been determined using the 22Na(3He,d)23Mg reaction [96] in an experiment using an implanted 22Na target and a Q3D spectrometer, only upper limits were obtained for most of the resonances in the astrophysically interesting region. Despite the excellent resolution afforded by the spectrometer, the experiment was hampered by strong background lines and less distinct angular distribution shapes from (3He,d), and the need for substantial shielding to cope with the activity of the 22Na target.
To address this, the GODDESS collaboration undertook a measurement of the 22Na(d,p)23Na reaction in inverse kinematics, to determine single-particle spectroscopic factors of the neutron mirror states, and thereby inform the resonance strengths in 23Mg independently of the systematics of the previous measurements. Spectroscopic strengths in
The GODDESS position-sensitive fast ionization chamber provided real-time beam diagnostics, including beam composition, rates by particle type, and mm-precision spatial feedback, to aid in tuning of the beamline and optimization of the RF sweeper phase. Protons emitted in the 22Na(d,p
6.3 The 26Al(p, )27Si reaction
The 1.8 MeV
A 9/2+ resonance at 127 keV is likely to dominate in massive stars, which can be populated via
6.4 The 30P(p, )31S reaction
30P is of particular interest for understanding classical nova nucleosynthesis on ONe white dwarfs [99], due in part to the long lifetime of 30P (
The rate of this reaction depends critically on the spectroscopic strengths of levels between 6 and 7 MeV excitation in 31S. The 30P(d,p
The protons emitted from the 30P (d,p)31S reaction on a
6.5 The 34Cl(p, )35Ar reaction
The elemental and isotopic composition of dust grains formed during the cooling of nova outflows can provide a signature of the nova origin of these grains, and furthermore provide metrics against which nova models can be tested. Such pre-solar grains can be found in primitive meteorites within the solar system [103]. However, the majority of grains originate from supernovae and massive stars and, although a number of isotopic ratios (including C, N and Si isotopes) are indicators of nova origins, none provide an unambiguous nova signature. A promising candidate for pre-solar grain classification is the 34S/32S ratio, which recent studies have suggested is constrained to a narrow range in nova grains [101], limit its usefulness. The 34Cl(p,
A recent spectrograph measurement [104] located levels in 35Ar but was unable to constrain the
A systematic experimental determination of the distribution of single-proton spectroscopic strengths as a function of excitation energy in 35Ar, for both 34gCl and 34mCl, would considerably enlighten the situation. A34g,mCl(d,p)35Cl experiment has been approved by the FRIB PAC [111], using the techniques outlined in Sections 5 and 6.6, and is awaiting scheduling at the time of writing.
6.6 The 38K(p, )39Ca reaction
The 38K(p,
Though a direct measurement of the 38gK(p,
6.6.1 Constraining 38K(p, )39Ca reaction via the 40Ca(3He, )39Ca reaction
GODDESS was deployed at ATLAS to search for resonances in 39Ca, utilizing the 40Ca(3He,
The second of these resonances was first reported in 1993 to be at 6286 (10) keV by a spectrograph measurement of the 40Ca(p,d)39Ca reaction at 65 MeV [120], giving a resonance energy of 515 (13) keV. This state was not been confirmed in subsequent measurements, such as the 40Ca(3He,
The third resonance, placed at 679 (2) keV in the 38gK(p,
In total, from this experiment, by locating the energies of states more precisely, the upper limit on the 38K(p,
6.6.2 Constraining 38K(p, )39Ca reaction via the 38K (d,p)39K reaction
Despite substantial progress, many open questions remain pertaining to the 38K(p,
Indeed, there are two known
To inform the properties of the relevant proton resonances near the 38K + p threshold, a proton transfer reaction, such as 38K(3He,d)39Ca or 38K(d,n)39Ca, would ideally be performed on both ground and isomeric states of 38K. However, as 39K and 39Ca are mirror nuclei, the technique of measuring the mirror 38K(d,p)39K reaction can be applied. Furthermore, due to the advances in delivering beams of nuclides in their ground and isomeric states, and controlling their ratio (as described in Section 5), a simultaneous measurement of 38g,mK (d,p)39K was undertaken at the ReA facility.
The 4.57 MeV/u beam, at a total intensity of
The reactions on the GS and isomer are deconvolved by scaling the data with the long holdup time to the short-holdup-time data by the number of incident GS ions. The difference between the two spectra therefore results entirely from reactions on the isomer. This deconvolution is straightforward, as the beam, target and detector properties, and hence experimental response, are identical for the two data sets. These data are currently under analysis to extract angular distributions,
7 Conclusion and outlook
Recent years have seen substantial investments in radioactive beam production, in the US (with the nascent US flagship facility, FRIB, and nuCARIBU at ATLAS at Argonne National Laboratory), and globally. With these investments come opportunities for constraining radiative-capture cross sections via direct measurements of resonance strengths, consequently spurring the development of new instrumentation, such as recoil separators such as SECAR at FRIB, and the JENSA gas-jet target.
However, to make use of these advances, indirect techniques, including various direct reactions (such as (d,p), (3He,t) and (3He,
With the increased complexity of RIB facilities, and competition for beam time, such indirect measurements will be increasingly critical for guiding direct measurements of radiative capture reactions, and in some cases remain the only way of constraining lower-lying resonances that are too weak for direct measurements with radioactive beams in the foreseeable future.
Author contributions
SP: Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing.
Funding
The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 (ORNL).
Acknowledgments
Thanks are owed to the members of the ORRUBA and GODDESS collaborations, and the operations staff at the HRIBF, ATLAS and ReA (NSCL/FRIB). The mentorship, friendship, collaboration, and pioneering contributions of the late Ray Kozub to the (d,p) experimental program discussed herein, stemming from the 18F(d,p) experiment, are remembered with fondness and gratitude.
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Footnotes
1Note that in this experiment, the statistics in differential cross sections (see Figure 6 of [49]) were insufficient to constrain
2A third study of direct 22Na(p,
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Keywords: direct reactions, isomers, nucleosynthesis, novae, x-ray bursts
Citation: Pain SD (2025) Direct reactions for astrophysical p-capture rates with ORRUBA and GODDESS. Front. Phys. 13:1537948. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2025.1537948
Received: 02 December 2024; Accepted: 30 April 2025;
Published: 26 June 2025.
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