Core-collapse supernovae and nucleosynthesis

Conference · Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:10105891

Haxton, W C

I discuss some of the physics that governs the collapse and explosion of a massive star, including issues such as lepton number losses in the infall stage and neutrino heating and convection following the core bounce. I review recent work on the neutrino process and the r-process, describing how the nucleosynthesis depends on the explosion mechanism. Some of the interesting possibilities for oscillations of closure mass {nu}{sub {tau}}s are discussed, along with their signatures in terrestrial detectors and in nucleosynthesis.

• Research Organization: Washington Univ., Seattle, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG06-90ER40561
• OSTI ID: 10105891
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40561-170; CONF-9409270-1; ON: DE95004357; IN: INT94-00-75; BR: 35KB01000/KB0300000; CNN: Grant NAGW2523
• Resource Relation: Conference: 3. school on astrofundamental physics,Erice (Italy),15-22 Sep 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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