Nuclear Physics of Stars

Christian Iliadis is Professor of Physics & Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a nuclear astrophysicist at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory. He received the prestigious University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014.

Preface

ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS
History
Nomenclature
Solar System Abundances
Astrophysical Aspects
Masses, Binding Energies, Nuclear Reactions, and Related Topics
Nuclear Shell Model
Nuclear Excited States and Electromagnetic Transitions
Weak Interaction

NUCLEAR REACTIONS
Cross Sections
Reciprocity Theorem
Elastic Scattering and Method of Partial Waves
Scattering by Simple Potentials
Theory of Resonances
Continuum Theory
Hauser-Feshbach Theory

THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS
Cross Sections and Reaction Rates
Nonresonant and Resonant Thermonuclear Reaction Rates

NUCLEAR PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS
General Aspects
Interaction of Radiation with Matter
Targets and Related Equipment
Radiation Detectors
Nuclear Spectroscopy
Miscellaneous Experimental Techniques
Background Radiation
Yields and Cross Sections for Charged-Particle-Induced Reactions
Transmissions, Yields, and Cross Sections for Neutron-Induced Reactions

NUCLEAR BURNING STAGES AND PROCESSES
Hydrostatic Hydrogen Burning
Hydrostatic Helium Burning
Advanced Burning Stages
Explosive Burning in Core-Collapse Supernovae (Type II, Ib, Ic)
Explosive Burning Involving Binary Stars
Nucleosynthesis Beyond the Iron Peak
Non-Stellar Processes
Origin of the Nuclides

APPENDIX
Solutions of the Schrödinger Equation in Three Dimensions
Quantum Mechanical Selection Rules
Kinematics
Angular Correlations
Constants, Data, Units, and Notation

Index