From the big bang to the nucleosynthesis [[electronic resource] /] / Italian Physical Society ; edited by A. Bracco and E. Nappi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461569103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Washington, D.C., : IOS Press, 2011
• ISBN: 6613556424; 1-280-37851-4; 9786613556424; 1-60750-974-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (467 p.)
• Collana: Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", , 0074-784X ; ; course 178
• Altri autori (Persone): BraccoA; NappiE
• Disciplina: 539.7
• Soggetti: Nucleosynthesis; Big bang theory; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Indice; Preface; Gruppo fotografico dei partecipanti al Corso; SUPERNOVAE AND NEUTRON STARS; Stellar evolution: From hydrostatic burning to core collapse; Introduction; Astrophysical nuclear reaction rates; Hydrostatic burning stages; Hydrogen burning; Solar neutrinos; Helium burning; Carbon, neon, oxygen, silicon burning; Core collapse supernovae; Electron captures in core-collapse supernovae - the general picture; Weak-interaction rates and presupernova evolution; The role of electron capture during collapse; Making heavy elements in explosive nucleosynthesis; The nu p process; The r-processNeutrino nucleosynthesis; The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR); The theory of Neutron Stars and the role of Nuclear Physics; Introduction; Overall structure of a Neutron Star; The outer crust; The inner crust; The outer core; The inner core; The free Fermi gas of nucleons; The Equation of State; The compressibility; Momentum distribution; The symmetry energy; The single particle density of states; The Pauli paramagnetism; Other microscopic physical quantities; ; Introducing the interaction; Sketch of the nucleon-nucleon interaction; Theoretical many-body methods; The Brueckner-Bethe-Goldstone expansionThe variational method; The relativistic approach; The V low approach; Trying a link to QCD: the chiral symmetry approach; Neutron matter at very low density. An exercise in many-body theory; A single G-matrix problem; The ""exact"" EoS; Going to nuclear structure; The Thomas-Fermi approximation and implementations; The density functional method; Nuclear Physics and Neutron Star structure; The Neutron Star inner crust; The Neutron Star core and mass-radius relationship; Conclusions and outlook; Spin-isospin modes: Implications for astrophysics; IntroductionThe compression modes and incompressibility of nuclear matter; Spin-isospin excitations; GT strength in fp-shell nuclei; Determination of GT- strength; Determination of GT+ strength and its astrophysical implications; Conclusions and outlook; NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AND NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS WITH RADIOACTIVE BEAMS; Nuclear-astrophysics experiments with relativistic radioactive beams; Introduction; Experiments with high-energy radioactive beams at GSI; Mass measurements; The dipole response of exotic nuclei; Future perspectives-NuSTAR at FAIR; The FAIR facility; The radioactive beam facilityExperiments with slowed-down and stopped beams; The low-energy branch; High-resolution in-flight spectroscopy (HISPEC); Decay spectroscopy (DESPEC); The advanced trapping system MATS; The laser-spectroscopy experiment LASPEC; Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams (R3B); Experiments with stored and cooled beams; Isomeric beams, lifetimes, and masses (ILIMA); Reactions at internal targets in the NESR (EXL); Electron scattering with short-lived nuclei (ELISe); The Antiproton-Ion-Collider AIC; Conclusion; Nuclear structure studies at RIKEN: New measurements with in-flight fast radioactive beams
• Sommario/riassunto: Physicists have devoted much effort to reproducing the conditions of the primordial universe in laboratory conditions in their quest to work out a comprehensive theory of the appearance and evolution of nuclear matter. Whether it be trying to recreate the predicted primordial state of high-energy density matter in which quarks and gluons are effectively deconfined - the so-called Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) - or exploring the structure and reaction properties of very unstable nuclei in experiments using radioactive beams, they have striven to understand the events which characterized the Big Bang