PHYSICS 554/ASTRONOMY 510 Nuclear Astrophysics: Fall 2007 OUTLINE (Note that the version of the lectures given in 2005 are online now at the INT web site, under Schools and Workshops/Class Notes. A few changes will be made as I go through the lectures, so chapter by chapter there will be new postings.) 1. Element abundances and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis 2. Cosmology: Baryons, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and Dark Matter/Energy 3. Nuclear reactions in stars 3.1 hydrogen burning: pp chain, CNO cycles 3.2 red giant evolution: 3 reaction and 12C(,) 4. Solar neutrinos, neutrino oscillations, matter effects 4.1 neutrino-nucleus reactions 4.2 detectors 4.3 neutrino oscillations and the MSW effect 4.4 neutrino properties and open questions 5. Core-collapse supernovae 6. Nova and supernova nucleosynthesis 6.1 in novae 6.2 the s-process 6.3 the r-process 6.4 neutrino process 7. Neutron stars 8. Cosmic rays 8.1 composition and sources 8.2 very high energies and the GZK cutoff 8.3 atmospheric neutrinos 8.4 -ray lines 8.5 -ray bursts References on Reserve D. Clayton, Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis: on reserve in Physics/Astronomy libraryCritique: probably the best book overall on the "nuclear" aspects on stellar evolution and stellar nucleosynthesis, but unfortunately very dated. Reputedly based on Willy Fowler's teaching notes. E. Kolb and M. Turner, The Early Universe: on reserve in Physics/Astronomy library Critique: good reference on big bang and many issues related to cosmology. J. Bahcall and J. Ostriker, Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics: on reserve in Physics/Astronomy library Critique: relatively current (about five years old), inspiration for the “projects” we will do in this course This year is the 50th anniversary of BBFH – Burbidge, Burbidge, Fowler, and Hoyle – the classic paper that, along with work by Cameron, gave birth to nuclear astrophysics. A few months ago a celebration of this paper occurred at Caltech. See the conference web site for a great overview of key problems in modern nuclear astrophysics,
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