Conveners
Light Nuclei: Morning - 1
- Heshani Jayatissa (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Light Nuclei: Morning - 2
- Azusa Inoue
Light Nuclei: Afternoon - 1
- There are no conveners in this block
Understanding the nucleosynthesis processes in various astrophysical scenarios such as x-ray bursts and supernovae involve the study of numerous capture reactions. A Type-I x-ray burst (XRB) is an explosion in a binary system of an accreting neutron star and a companion star. The dominant ($p,\gamma$) nucleosynthesis flow in XRBs is halted at several waiting point nuclei such as $^{22}$Mg,...
$^{12}$C-induced reactions at MeV order energy are of great importance not only in astronomical contexts but also in applications such as cancer treatment, thanks to recent advances in accelerator technology. However, there is no established standard calculation method for reactions involving heavy ions with higher mass numbers than alpha particles. Various computational codes employ a wide...
Pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) are phenomena that are the final fates of very massive stars with an initial mass ranging from 140 to 260 $M_{\odot}$. Unlike other supernovae, PISNe do not leave behind compact objects. Stellar evolution theory predicts that there is a gap in the distribution of black hole masses due to PISNe. Recent works suggested that the location of this gap may be...
