Neutron capture cross section of unstable 63Ni: implications for stellar nucleosynthesis.

The authors would like to thank H. Danninger and C. Gierl of the Technical University of Vienna for their help preparing the 62Ni sample. This work was partly supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Projects No. P20434 and No. I428. M. P. also acknowledges the support from the Ambizione grant of the Swiss NSF, the NSF Grants No. PHY 02-16783 and No. PHY 09-22648 (Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, JINA), EU Grant No. MIRG-CT-2006-046520, and EuroGenesis. T. R. acknowledges support from EuroGenesis, the FP7 ENSAR/THEXO project, and a "Distinguished Guest Scientist Fellowship" from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.