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Nuclei in the Cosmos (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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Nuclei in the Cosmos (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
Series: Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
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Nuclear astrophysics as it stands today is a fascinating science.
Even though, compared to other scientific fields, it is a young
discipline which has developed only in this century, it has
answered many questions concerning the under standing of our
cosmos. One of these great achievements was the concept of
nucleosynthesis, the creation of the elements in the early universe
in interstellar matter and in stars. Nuclear astrophysics has
continued, to solve many riddles of the evolution of the myriads of
stars in our cosmos. This review volume attempts to provide an
overview of the current status of nuclear astrophysics. Special
emphasis is given to the interdisciplinary nature of the field:
astronomy, nuclear physics, astrophysics and particle physics are
equally involved. One basic effort of nuclear astrophysics is the
collection of ob servational facts with astronomical methods.
Laboratory studies of the nuclear processes involved in various
astrophysical scenarios have provided fundamen tal information
serving both as input for and test of astrophysical models. The
theoretical understanding of nuclear reaction mechanisms is
necessary, for example, to extrapolate the experimentally
determined reaction rates to the thermonuclear energy range, which
is relevant for the nuclear processes in our cosmos. Astrophysical
models and calculations allow us to simulate how nuclear processes
contribute to driving the evolution of stars, interstellar matter
and the whole universe. Finally, elementary particle physics also
plays an important role in the field of nuclear astrophysics, for
instance through weak interaction processes involving neutrinos."
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