4-5 August 2012
The Sebel Hotel
Australia/Sydney timezone
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Formation of the Heaviest Elements: Necessary Conditions, Astrophysical Sites, Nuclear Input

5 Aug 2012, 09:00
30m
The Sebel Hotel

The Sebel Hotel

Cairns/ Australia

Speaker

Prof. Friedrich Thielemann (University of Basel)

Description

We give a short review on necessary conditions in order to achieve a sufficient neutron/seed ratio for an r-process to occur, what are the candidate astrophysical sites to fulfill such conditions (supernovae, magnetar-forming supernovae, quark (super-)novae, neutron star mergers,...), what is their role in the chemical evolution of galaxies, and whether there existed a chance to produce superheavy elements in nature.

Primary author

Prof. Friedrich Thielemann (University of Basel)

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