Studying X-ray Burst Nucleosynthesis in the Laboratory

C. M. DEIBEL; L. AFANASIEVA; M. ALBERS; M. ALCORTA; S. ALMARAZ-CALDERON; S. BEDOOR; P. F. BERTONE; P. CARNELLI; A. A. CHEN; J. CHEN; J. A. CLARK; J. M. FIGUEIRA; J. P. GREENE; C. R. HOFFMAN; D. IRVINE; C. L. JIANG; B. P. KAY; J. LAI; H. Y. LEE; J. C. LIGHTHALL; S. MANWELL; S. T. MARLEY; C. NAIR; T. PALACHAN-HAZAN; R. C. PARDO; N. PATEL; M. PAUL; B. C. RASCO; K. E. REHM; A. M. ROGERS; D. SHETTY; C. UGALDE; A. WUOSMAA; G. ZINKANN

New Orleans

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

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, radioactive ion beam techniques that have recently been developed have allowed the study of some of the most important (á, p) reactions in X-ray bursts for the first time.