Conveners
Wednesday - Session 2
- Zsolt Podolyak (University of Surrey)
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Gabriel Martínez Pinedo (GSI Darmstadt)07/09/2022, 11:00Invited
A kilonova is an electromagnetic transient powered by the radioactive decay of nuclei freshly
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synthesized by the rapid neutron capture process (r-process). Its observation following the
gravitational wave event GW170817 provided the first evidence that the r-process operates in
neutron star mergers. Kilonova observations provide unique opportunities to learn about the in-
situ operation of... -
Mr Yukiya Saito07/09/2022, 11:30Oral
The rapid neutron capture process ($r$-process) is a complex nucleosynthesis mechanism for the creation of heavy nuclei, which occurs under extreme astrophysical conditions, such as binary neutron star mergers and core-collapse supernovae. Not only are the predictions of the r-process abundance pattern affected by such astrophysical conditions, the calculations also involve thousands of...
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Ms Maria Markova (University of Oslo)07/09/2022, 11:45Oral
The concepts of the nuclear level density (NLD) and $\gamma-$ray strength function (GSF) are two essential tools for the statistical description of excited nuclei and their $\gamma-$decay, used in numerous large-scale astrophysical calculations of abundances of elements in the universe. In this work, one of the widely used experimental techniques, the Oslo method was applied to the...
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Felix Heim07/09/2022, 12:00Oral
While most of the heavy elements in our universe are produced via neutron-capture processes, the nucleosynthesis of the neutron-deficient p nuclei is still an open question in nuclear astrophysics. The p nuclei are most likely produced in explosive stellar scenarios by the astrophysical $\gamma$ process, which is a complex network of thousands of nuclear - mostly photodisintegration -...
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Dennis Muecher (University of Guelph (CA)), Fabio Zeiser07/09/2022, 12:15Oral
Experimental neutron capture rates of short-lived neutron-rich nuclei are of pivotal importance for our understanding of explosive nucleosynthesis. In this contribution we present an improved method for constraining neutron capture rates in exotic nuclei experimentally with beam intensities down to a few pps using the $\beta$-Oslo method.
While a powerful technique to access the most exotic...
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