TRIUMF Science Week

Session

R-Process Sites

Jul 18, 2018, 9:00 a.m.

TRIUMF and UBC

Conveners

R-Process Sites

• Iris Dillmann (TRIUMF)

0. Introduction

Greg Hackman (TRIUMF)

2018-07-18, 9:00 a.m.

2. Daddy, Where Did I Come From?

Jeremy Heyl (University of British Columbia)

2018-07-18, 9:10 a.m.

I will outline how nearly all of the elements essential to you are produced in the evolution of low-mass and high-mass stars and in white-dwarf binaries. All the essential elements except for iodine, that is. The story of where did iodine come from along more common materials like platinum (yes, platinum is more common in the Universe) was a mystery for 60 years between when B2FH first...

1. Neutron Stars and Mergers

Chuck Horowitz (Indiana University)

2018-07-18, 9:40 a.m.

We discuss observations of neutron stars and neutron star mergers and how these depend on the equation of state and other properties of dense neutron rich matter. We also discuss some related laboratory experiments with neutron rich nuclei.