Conveners
Carbon fusion
- Frank Strieder (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)
Aurora Tumino
(Kore University & INFN)
25/06/2018, 11:45
Invited
Aurora Tumino
(University Kore),
Inmaculata Dominguez
(University of Granada),
Luciano Piersanti
(INAF - OAA),
Oscar Straniero
(INAF - OAA)
25/06/2018, 12:15
Oral
Mup is the minimum mass of a star that, after the core-helium burning, develops temperature and density conditions for the occurrence of a
hydrostatic carbon burning. Stars whose mass is lower than this limit are the progenitors of C-O white dwarfs and, when belong to a close binary system, may give rise to explosive phenomena, such as cataclysm variables, novae or type Ia supernovae. Stars...
Alexis Diaz-Torres
(University of Surrey)
25/06/2018, 12:30
Cosmology and big bang nucleosynthesis
Oral
A quantitative study of the astrophysically important sub-barrier fusion of 12C + 12C will be presented [1]. Low-energy collisions are described in the body-fixed reference frame using wave-packet dynamics within a nuclear molecular picture. A collective Hamiltonian drives the time propagation of the wave-packet through the collective potential-energy landscape. The fusion imaginary potential...
Xiaodong Tang
(Institute of Modern Physics, CAS)
25/06/2018, 12:45
Oral
The carbon fusion reaction is a crucial reaction in stellar evolution. Due to its complicated reaction mechanism, there is a large uncertainty in the reaction rate which limits our understanding to various stellar objects, such as massive stars, type Ia supernovae, and superbursts. In this talk, I will review the challenges in the study of carbon burning. I will also report recent results from...
