Nucleosynthesis in neutrino heated matter: The vp-process and the r-process
Abstract
This manuscript reviews recent progress in our understanding of the nucleosynthesis of medium and heavy elements in supernovae. Recent hydrodynamical models of core-collapse supernovae show that a large amount of proton rich matter is ejected under strong neutrino fluxes. This matter constitutes the site of the vp-process where antineutrino absorption reactions catalyze the nucleosynthesis of nuclei with A > 64. Supernovae are also associated with the r-process responsible for the synthesis of the heaviest elements in nature. Fission during the r-process can play a major role in determining the final abundance patter and in explaining the almost universal features seen in metal-poor r-process-rich stars.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0608490,
title = {Nucleosynthesis in neutrino heated matter: The vp-process and the r-process},
author = {G. Martínez-Pinedo and A. Kelic and K. Langanke and K. -H. Schmidt and D. Mocelj and C. Fröhlich and F. -K. Thielemann and I. Panov and T. Rauscher and M. Liebendörfer and N. T. Zinner and B. Pfeiffer and R. Buras and H. -Th. Janka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0608490},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at NIC-IX, International Symposium on Nuclear Astrophysics - Nuclei in the Cosmos - IX, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 25-30 June, 2006