Conveners
Heavy Metals
- Phil Woods
The light heavy elements between strontium and silver, can be synthesized in a primary process in either neutron- (weak r-process) or proton-rich (νp-process) neutrino-driven outflows of explosive environments [1]. Constraining the nuclear physics uncertainties, for example the (α,xn) reaction rates in the weak r-process [2,3], allows us to investigate the conditions that create the light ...
Galactic Archaeologists are opening a revolutionary era for the determination of stellar parameters, such as effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, and ages, for a substantial fraction of the stars in the Milky Way, and eventually in dwarf galaxies and other nearby galaxies of the Local Group. The most recent surveys implement a combination of narrow- and intermediate-band...
How to make gold and silver? -The long-sought-after answer to this question remains one of the most challenging open problems that tie together nuclear physics with astronomy. Heavy elements like gold and silver are produced in the so-called rapid neutron-capture process (r-process). This process only occurs in rare explosive events in the Universe like supernovae (SNe) and neutron star...
