Nuclear reactions in stars far below the Coulomb barrier
Prof. Claus Rolfs
(Ruhr-Universitat Bochum)
Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación) Jueves, 20 de Noviembre de 2008 a las 12:00 PM
Resumen
It is in the nature of astrophysics that many of the processes and objects one tries to understand are physically inaccessible. Thus, it is important that those aspects that can be studied in the laboratory be rather well understood. One such aspect are nuclear fusion reactions, which are at the heart of nuclear astrophysics: they influence sensitively the nucleosynthesis of the elements in the earliest stages of the universe and in all the objects formed thereafter, and control the associated energy generation, neutrino luminosity, and evolution of stars. A good knowledge of the rates of these reactions is thus essential for understanding this broad picture.
