White Paper on Nuclear Astrophysics
Abstract
This white paper informs the nuclear astrophysics community and funding agencies about the scientific directions and priorities of the field and provides input from this community for the 2015 Nuclear Science Long Range Plan. It summarizes the outcome of the nuclear astrophysics town meeting that was held on August 21-23, 2014 in College Station at the campus of Texas A&M University in preparation of the NSAC Nuclear Science Long Range Plan. It also reflects the outcome of an earlier town meeting of the nuclear astrophysics community organized by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA) on October 9- 10, 2012 Detroit, Michigan, with the purpose of developing a vision for nuclear astrophysics in light of the recent NRC decadal surveys in nuclear physics (NP2010) and astronomy (ASTRO2010). The white paper is furthermore informed by the town meeting of the Association of Research at University Nuclear Accelerators (ARUNA) that took place at the University of Notre Dame on June 12-13, 2014. In summary we find that nuclear astrophysics is a modern and vibrant field addressing fundamental science questions at the intersection of nuclear physics and astrophysics. These questions relate to the origin of the elements, the nuclear engines that drive life and death of stars, and the properties of dense matter. A broad range of nuclear accelerator facilities, astronomical observatories, theory efforts, and computational capabilities are needed. With the developments outlined in this white paper, answers to long standing key questions are well within reach in the coming decade.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1603.02213,
title = {White Paper on Nuclear Astrophysics},
author = {Almudena Arcones and Dan W. Bardayan and Timothy C. Beers and Lee A. Berstein and Jeffrey C. Blackmon and Bronson Messer and B. Alex Brown and Edward F. Brown and Carl R. Brune and Art E. Champagne and Alessandro Chieffi and Aaron J. Couture and Pawel Danielewicz and Roland Diehl and Mounib El-Eid and Jutta Escher and Brian D. Fields and Carla Fröhlich and Falk Herwig and William Raphael Hix and Christian Iliadis and William G. Lynch and Gail C. McLaughlin and Bradley S. Meyer and Anthony Mezzacappa and Filomena Nunes and Brian W. O'Shea and Madappa Prakash and Boris Pritychenko and Sanjay Reddy and Ernst Rehm and Grigory Rogachev and Robert E. Rutledge and Hendrik Schatz and Michael S. Smith and Ingrid H. Stairs and Andrew W. Steiner and Tod E. Strohmayer and Frank X. Timmes and Dean M. Townsley and Michael Wiescher and Remco G. T. Zegers and Michael Zingale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02213},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
131 pages, community white paper based on 2012 JINA Town Meeting in Detroit, MI, and 2014 APS Town Meeting in College Station, TX, corrected author names