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Evidence for nucleosynthesis in supernova $\gamma$-process: Universal scaling on p-nuclei

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v2 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

With analyzing the solar system abundance, we have found two universal scaling laws concerning the p- and s-nuclei. They indicate that the gamma-process in supernova (SN) explosions is the most promising origin of the p-nuclei that has been discussed with many possible nuclear reactions and sites for about fifty years. In addition the scalings provide new concepts: an universality of the gamma-process and a new nuclear cosmochronometer. We have carried out gamma-process nucleosynthesis calculations for typical core-collapse SN explosion models and the results satisfy the observed scalings.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0409395,
  title  = {Evidence for nucleosynthesis in supernova $\gamma$-process: Universal scaling on p-nuclei},
  author = {T. Hayakawa and N. Iwamoto and T. Shizuma and T. Kajino and H. Umeda and K. Nomoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0409395},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Phyisical Review Letters, in October