Origin of the Chemical Elements
arXiv:1011.5627 · doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0720-2_12
Abstract
This review provides the necessary background from astrophysics, nuclear, and particle physics to understand the cosmic origin of the chemical elements. It reflects the year 2009 state of the art in this extremely quickly developing interdisciplinary research direction. The discussion summarizes the nucleosynthetic processes in the course of the evolution of the Universe and the galaxies contained within, including primordial nucleosynthesis, stellar evolution, and explosive nucleosynthesis in single and binary systems.
65 pages, 11 figures; This will be Chapter 1 in Volume 2 of "Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry, Second Edition" (Springer, ISBN 978-1-4419-0721-9); the chapter was submitted to Springer in November 2009; scheduled to appear January 2011 (v2: fixed section numbering, added TOC)
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