Nuclei in the Cosmos [E-Book] / edited by Heinz Oberhummer.
Nuclear astrophysics as it stands today is a fascinating science. Even though, compared to other scientific fields, it is a young discipline which has developed only in this century, it has answered many questions concerning the under standing of our cosmos. One of these great achievements was the...
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Personal Name(s): | Oberhummer, Heinz, editor |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer,
1991
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Physical Description: |
XII, 236 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9783642488405 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-642-48840-5 |
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Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
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- Experimental Determination of Stellar Reaction Rates
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Direct Measurements
- 3. Indirect Approaches
- 4. Reactions Involving Radioactive Nuclides
- References
- Radioactive Ion Beams in Nuclear Astrophysics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Interest of Radioactive Ion Beams in Nuclear Astrophysics
- 3. Production of Radioactive Ion Beams
- 4. Special Experimental Techniques in Nuclear Astrophysics Using Radioactive Ion Beams
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Direct Reaction Mechanism in Astrophysically Relevant Processes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Qualitative Features of Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms
- 3. Nuclear Reactions in Astrophysical Scenarios
- 4. Optical Potentials
- 5. Theoretical Descriptions of Direct Reactions
- 6. Examples
- 7. Summary
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Nuclear Reaction Rates — from Laboratory Experiments and in the Stellar Plasma
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical Models for Extrapolating Measured Data
- 3. Electron Screening in Laboratory Experiments
- 4. Screening Effects in the Plasma
- References
- Abundances in Galaxies
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Light Element Abundances
- 3. Abundance Trends Between and Across Galaxies
- 4. Stellar Populations in Our Galaxy
- 5. Differential Abundance Variations Among Elements
- References
- Nuclei in Cosmic Rays
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Techniques for Measuring Composition from Satellites and Balloons
- 3. Results of Satellite and Balloon Experiments
- 4. How to Measure Cosmic Ray Composition above 1015 eV
- 5. Summary
- References
- Primordial Nucleosynthesis: Beyond the Standard Model
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Standard Primordial Nucleosynthesis
- 3. Observational Tests of the Standard Model
- 4. The QCD Phase Transition
- 5. Neutrinos in the Early Universe
- 6. Cosmic Strings
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- Production of Heavy Elements in Inhomogeneous Cosmologies
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The QCD Transition in the Early Universe
- 3. The Standard Big Bang
- 4. Inhomogeneous Big Bang Scenarios
- 5. Computational Method
- 6. Results
- Acknowledgements
- References
- The s-Process: Branchings and Chronometers
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Chronometers — Models and Reality
- 3. s-Process Concepts
- 4. s-Process Time Scales
- 5. Selected Examples
- 6. Conclusions
- References
- Beta Decay Far from Stability and Double Beta Decay, and Consequences for Astrophysics
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Calculations of Beta Decay Properties of Nuclei Far from Stability
- 3. Beta Decay Far from Stability and the Astrophysical r-Process
- 4. The r-Process and the Age of the Universe
- 5. Age of the Universe, Cosmology and Neutrino Mass
- 6. Double Beta Decay and Neutrino Mass
- 7. Conclusion
- References.