The formation of the heaviest elements
Abstract
The rapid neutron-capture process needed to build up many of the elements heavier than iron seems to take place primarily in neutron-star mergers, not supernova explosions.
- Publication:
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Physics Today
- Pub Date:
- January 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1063/PT.3.3815
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1801.01190
- Bibcode:
- 2018PhT....71a..30F
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Nuclear Experiment;
- Nuclear Theory
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