Origin of the heaviest elements: The rapid neutron-capture process

JJ Cowan, C Sneden, JE Lawler, A Aprahamian… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
The production of about half of the heavy elements found in nature is assigned to a specific
astrophysical nucleosynthesis process: the rapid neutron-capture process (r process) …

The impact of individual nuclear properties on r-process nucleosynthesis

MR Mumpower, R Surman, GC McLaughlin… - Progress in Particle and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The astrophysical rapid neutron capture process or 'r process' of nucleosynthesis is believed
to be responsible for the production of approximately half the heavy element abundances …

Supernova neutrinos: production, oscillations and detection

A Mirizzi, I Tamborra, HT Janka, N Saviano… - La Rivista del Nuovo …, 2016 - Springer
Neutrinos play a crucial role in the collapse and explosion of massive stars, governing the
infall dynamics of the stellar core, triggering and fueling the explosion and driving the …

Evidence for neutrino oscillations from the observation of appearance in a beam

A Aguilar, LB Auerbach, RL Burman, DO Caldwell… - Physical Review D, 2001 - APS
A search for ν μ→ ν e oscillations was conducted by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector
at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center using ν μ from μ+ decay at rest. A total excess of …

Light sterile neutrinos: a white paper

KN Abazajian, MA Acero, SK Agarwalla… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2012 - arxiv.org
arxiv:1204.5379v1 [hep-ph] 18 Apr 2012 Page 1 Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper KN
Abazajiana,1 MA Acero,2 SK Agarwalla,3 AA Aguilar-Arevalo,2 CH Albright,4, 5 S. Antusch,6 …

Current status of r-process nucleosynthesis

T Ka**o, W Aoki, AB Balantekin, R Diehl… - Progress in Particle and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The rapid neutron capture process (r process) is believed to be responsible for about half of
the production of the elements heavier than iron and contributes to abundances of some …

Sterile neutrino hot, warm, and cold dark matter

K Abazajian, GM Fuller, M Patel - Physical Review D, 2001 - APS
We calculate the incoherent resonant and non-resonant scattering production of sterile
neutrinos in the early universe. We find ranges of sterile neutrino masses, vacuum mixing …

Nuclear weak-interaction processes in stars

K Langanke, G Martínez-Pinedo - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2003 - APS
Recent experimental data and progress in nuclear structure modeling have led to improved
descriptions of astrophysically important weak-interaction processes. This review discusses …

Identifying the neutrino mass spectrum from the neutrino burst from a supernova

AS Dighe, YA Smirnov - Phys. Rev. D, 1999 - cds.cern.ch
The current data on solar and atmospheric neutrinos admit more than one solutions in terms
of the oscillations between three neutrino species. We examine the consequences of these …

Neutrinos from dense environments: Flavor mechanisms, theoretical approaches, observations, and new directions

MC Volpe - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum
mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to …