Difficulties in Probing Nuclear Physics: A Study of $^{44}$Ti and $^{56}$Ni
Astrophysics
2008-12-01 v1
Abstract
The nucleosynthetic yield from a supernova explosion depends upon a variety of effects: progenitor evolution, explosion process, details of the nuclear network, and nuclear rates. Especially in studies of integrated stellar yields, simplifications reduce these uncertainties. But nature is much more complex, and to actually study nuclear rates, we will have to understand the full, complex set of processes involved in nucleosynthesis. Here we discuss a few of these complexities and detail how the NuGrid collaboration will address them.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0811.4645,
title = {Difficulties in Probing Nuclear Physics: A Study of $^{44}$Ti and $^{56}$Ni},
author = {Aimee Hungerford and Christopher L. Fryer and Francis X. Timmes and Patrick Young and Michael Bennett and Steven Diehl and Falk Herwig and Raphael Hirschi and Marco Pignatari and Georgios Magkotsios and Gabriel Rockefeller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.4645},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
To appear in the Conference Proceedings for the "10th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC X)", July 27 - August 1 2008, Mackinack Island, Michigan, USA