Photonuclear Reactions in Astrophysics

Abstract

A brief overview of the importance of photodisintegration reactions in astrophysical environments is given and the relevance of photonuclear experiments for nucleosynthesis studies is discussed.

7 pages, 3 figures; overview article for non-experts; to appear in Nuclear Physics News; v2: same as v1 (my mistake); v3: added sentence to conclusions; updated references

References in corpus (4)

• Neutron Reactions in Astrophysics
• Nuclear Physics Meets the Sources of the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
• Challenges in nucleosynthesis of trans-iron elements
• General properties of astrophysical reaction rates in explosive nucleosynthesis

Cited by in corpus (3)

• Horizons: Nuclear Astrophysics in the 2020s and Beyond
• Determination of the photodisintegration reaction rates involving charged particles: systematical calculations and proposed measurements based on Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)
• Feasibility of studying astrophysically important charged-particle emission with the variable energy $\gamma$-ray system at the Extreme Light Infrastructure -- Nuclear Physics facility