Studying X-ray Burst Nucleosynthesis in the Laboratory

DEIBEL, C.M.; AFANASIEVA, L.; ALBERS, M.; ALCORTA, M.; ALMARAZ CALDERÓN, S.; BEDOOR, S.; BERTONE, P.F.; CARNELLI, PATRICIO FRANCISCO FLORENCIO; CHEN, A.A.; CHEN, J.; CLARK, J.A.; FIGUEIRA, JUAN MANUEL; GREENE, J.P.; HOFFMAN, C.R.

New Orleans

Conferencia; HITES 2012: 'Horizons of Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics'; 2012

LSU

Type I X-ray bursts are the most common explosions in the Galaxy; however, the nucleosynthesis that occurs during the thermonuclear runaway and explosion is poorly understood. In this proceedings we discuss current experimental efforts and techniques that are being used to study X-ray burst nucleosynthesis in the laboratory. Specifically, radioactiveion beam techniques that have recently been developed have allowed the study of some of the most important (alpha, p) reactions in X-ray bursts for the first time.