Dr
Rene REIFARTH
(GSI Darmstadt Germany)
08/06/2010, 11:30
Radioactive ion beams in nuclear astrophysics
invited
The nucleosynthesis of elements beyond iron is dominated by neutron captures in the s and r processes. However, 32 so-called p-nuclei are thought to be produced in the p process, where proton-rich nuclei are made by sequences of photodisintegrations and (p,g) reactions and following decays on existing r- and s-seed nuclei.
Charged-particle induced cross section measurements in the...
Dr
Peter Thirolf
(Fakultät für Physik-Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. München)
08/06/2010, 12:00
Radioactive ion beams in nuclear astrophysics
oral
Along with the availability of high power, short pulse lasers arises the perspective of generating ultra-dense, laser-accelerated ion beams, which is one of the most active fields of research in virtually all major high-power laser laboratories world-wide. We plan to apply the new Radiation Pressure Acceleration (RPA) mechanism for ion acceleration, which was recently observed [1,2,3]. We are...
Ms
Anabel Morales López
(USC)
08/06/2010, 12:20
Radioactive ion beams in nuclear astrophysics
oral
The decay properties of neutron-rich nuclei around N=126 are very important not only because they will provide valuable information about nuclear models far from stability, but also because these nuclei approach the astrophysical rapid-neutron capture [1] path near the waiting-point A~195. Particularly, the beta-decay half lives provide a noteworthy understanding of the r-process time-scales,...