Course Outline Part 3- Nuclear and Hadronic Physics
Lecture 1, Wednesday, 27 2004
Stardust: Nucleosynthesis in ordinary
stars and extraordinary astrophysical events
The Galaxy and a Supernovae Remnant imaged with unstable nuclei
Reading Asignment
Go to the web page of Michigan State University, Prof. Schatz, course
PHYS 893, Nuclear Astrophysics:
http://www.nscl.msu.edu/~schatz/PHY983/topics.htm
Read the Lecture notes
"We are all stardust": Overview Nucleosynthesis
and
Hydogen burning - steady flow (powerpoint, or
pdf
)
Quiz Questions:
1) What are the three reactions of the pp-I chain in the sun that
turn 6 protons into a He-4 nucleus plus 2 protons plus 2 positrons plus
two
neutrinos plus 2 gamma rays?
2) In the basic CNO cycle, a single C-12 nucleus serves as a catalyst
(The C-12 is recreated at the end of the cycle). What (and how
many) nuclei are consumed and what nuclei are produced in a
single CNO cycle.
3) Do Supernovae primarily produce proton rich heavy nuclei or neutron
rich heavy nuclei?