The project entails investigations of astrophysical reactions in explosive stellar phenomena, using direct and indirect experimental techniques
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Surrey
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Classical novae are among the most frequent and violent stellar explosions to occur in our Galaxy, thereby playing a key role in its chemical evolution. Recently, remarkable advances in astronomy and meteoritics have produced a wealth of observational data on these cataclysmic astronomical events, giving us unprecedented insight into their properties. However, our understanding of this latest data is severely hindered by large uncertainties in the underlying nuclear physics processes involving unstable nuclei that drive these stellar scenarios. Modern state-of-the-art radioactive beams facilities provide the means to resolve this issue through their ability to recreate the conditions that occur in explosive stellar phenomena in a terrestrial laboratory. In particular, it is now possible to obtain direct measures of astrophysical reactions involving unstable nuclei that govern both the path of nucleosynthesis and rate of energy release in classical novae. In this project, astrophysical reactions influencing key nova observables will be investigated at world-leading radioactive beam facilities such as TRIUMF and CERN with an emphasis on direct measurements.
Organisations
Publications
Rudigier M
(2020)
Multi-quasiparticle sub-nanosecond isomers in 178W
in Physics Letters B
Marchini N
(2019)
Shape coexistence in 94 Zr studied via Coulomb excitation
in EPJ Web of Conferences
Canavan R
(2020)
Half-life measurements in Dy 164 , 166 using ? - ? fast-timing spectroscopy with the ? -Ball spectrometer
in Physical Review C
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
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ST/R505134/1 | 01/10/2017 | 30/09/2021 | |||
1944090 | Studentship | ST/R505134/1 | 01/10/2017 | 31/03/2021 | Adam Kennington |
Description | Presentation at INPC 2019 in Glasgow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of research in Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics to Academics, Researchers and PhD students from universities and research institutions around the world as part of nuclear astrophysics programme at the International Nuclear Physics Conference 2019 in Glasgow. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |