Conveners
Workshop: Session B
- Mathis Wiedeking (Lawrence brekely laboratory)
Indirect nuclear astrophysics methods are essential for determining stellar reaction rates, especially when direct measurements are challenging. This contribution will highlight recent advances using the Trojan Horse Method (THM) [1,2] to investigate key reactions in stars, such as carbon burning (12C+12C and 12C+16O fusion). Our studies focus on the dominant alpha and proton...
Classical novae are explosive events in binary star systems that require a deep understanding of both stellar and nuclear physics. These outbursts are driven by a thin-shell instability in material accreted from a main-sequence or red giant companion onto the surface of a white dwarf. The explosion ejects matter into the interstellar medium, and the detailed composition of this material...