Neutron-induced nucleosynthesis
Abstract
Neutron--induced nucleosynthesis plays an important role in astrophysical scenarios like in primordial nucleosynthesis in the early universe, in the s--process occurring in Red Giants, and in the --rich freeze--out and r--process taking place in supernovae of type II. A review of the three important aspects of neutron--induced nucleosynthesis is given: astrophysical background, experimental methods and theoretical models for determining reaction cross sections and reaction rates at thermonuclear energies. Three specific examples of neutron capture at thermal and thermonuclear energies are discussed in some detail.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9608125,
title = {Neutron-induced nucleosynthesis},
author = {H. Oberhummer and H. Herndl and T. Rauscher and H. Beer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9608125},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
40 pages (uses kluwer.sty), 2 postscript figures (uses psfig), accepted for publication in Surveys in Geophysics, uuencoded tex-files and postscript-files available at ftp://is1.kph.tuwien.ac.at/pub/ohu/Geo.uu