Measuring the ³⁹K(p,γ)⁴⁰Ca reaction with DRAGON

The ³⁹K(p,γ)⁴⁰Ca reaction has been identified as being critical to understanding some of the abundance anomalies observed in globular clusters. Measuring this reaction is challenging due to the difficulty of producing 39K targets without contamination due to e.g. fluorine, reactions on which can overwhelm the signal of interest in this experiment. In this talk, I will present a previously performed experiment at TRIUMF using the DRAGON recoil separator and discuss how using inverse kinematics techniques can help to resolve some of the discrepancies observed between direct measurements in normal kinematics and indirect proton-transfer reactions.