Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 3
Saturday–Tuesday, April 13–16, 2019; Denver, Colorado
Session T05: DNP Prize Session
3:30 PM–5:18 PM,
Monday, April 15, 2019
Sheraton
Room: Governor's Square 14
Sponsoring
Unit:
DNP
Chair: David Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Abstract: T05.00001 : From stardust to globular clusters: puzzles in nuclear astrophysics*
3:30 PM–4:06 PM
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Presenter:
Christian Iliadis
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Author:
Christian Iliadis
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Almost all elements were forged by nuclear reactions in stars. The elements are released at the end of a star’s lifetime, and are subsequently incorporated into a new generation of stars, into the planets that form around the stars, and into the life forms that originate on the planets. Moreover, the energy we depend on for life originates in nuclear reactions that occur at the center of the Sun. Synthesis of the elements and energy production in stars are at the heart of nuclear astrophysics research. Our understanding of nuclear reactions in stars has seen extraordinary progress over the past 75 years. Today, nuclear astrophysics constitutes a multidisciplinary crucible of knowledge addressing key questions in fundamental research, ranging from the age of the Universe to the origin of cosmic rays, from supernova explosions to the origin of the solar system. I will provide an introduction to this research field and present recent results obtained at the Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics (LENA).
*This work was supported in part by the U.S. DOE under contracts DE-FG02-97ER41041 (UNC) and DE-FG02-97ER41033 (TUNL), and NASA under the Astrophysics Theory Program grant 14-ATP14-0007.
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