Nuclear Partition Functions at Temperatures Exceeding 10^10 K
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Nuclear partition functions were calculated for a grid of temperatures from 1.2x10^10 K to 2.75x10^11 K (1<=kT<=24 MeV) within a Fermi-gas approach, including all nuclides from the proton-dripline to the neutron-dripline with proton number 9<=Z<=85. The calculation is based on a nuclear level density description published elsewhere, thus extending the previous tables of partition functions beyond 10^10 K. Additional high temperature corrections had to be applied.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0304047,
title = {Nuclear Partition Functions at Temperatures Exceeding 10^10 K},
author = {T. Rauscher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0304047},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages with 2 figures, accepted by Ap. J. Suppl.; additional material can be downloaded from http://ftp.nucastro.org/astro/fits/partfuncs/