29 May 2018 to 3 June 2018
Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center
US/Pacific timezone

Sites of the r-process: supernovae and mergers: Recent Successes and Current Issues

1 Jun 2018, 16:10
30m
North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room (Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center)

North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room

Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center

44600 Indian Wells Lane, Indian Wells, CA 92210, USA

Speaker

Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

Many of the heavy elements in the universe are produced through the rapid capture of neutrons onto iron peak elements, the so-called r-process. Sites for this crucial heavy element production are necessarily extreme and leading proposals invoke conditions at the heart of the engines behind supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. These models include neutrino-driven winds, magnetically-contained winds, magnetically-driven outflows, and disk winds around a collapsed star as well as the winds and dynamical ejecta from the merger of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole. Here we review these sites, their successes and problems in an effort to gain a more complete picture of the production of the heavy elements made in the r-process.
E-mail [email protected]
Collaboration name Chris Fryer
Funding source DOE

Primary author

Chris Fryer (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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