OMEG 2017, International Symposium on Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies, Daejeon, Korea, JUNE 27-30, 2017

Heavy ion fusion reactions in stars

30 Jun 2017, 15:50

25m

Hotel ICC, Daejeon, Korea

Oral Presentation Session 14 (Chair: S. C. Kim)

Speaker

Xiaodong Tang

Description

Heavy ion fusion reactions play important roles in a wide variety of stellar burning scenarios. For example, ${}^{12}$C+${}^{12}$C, ${}^{12}$C+${}^{16}$O and ${}^{16}$O+${}^{16}$O are the principle reactions during the advance burning stages of massive star. ${}^{12}$C+${}^{12}$C also triggers the happening of superburst and Type Ia supernovae. The heavy ion fusion reactions of the neutron-rich isotopes such as ${}^{24}$O are the major heating source in the crust of neutron star. In this talk, I will review the challenges and the recent progress in the study of these heavy ion fusion reactions at stellar energies. The outlook for the studies of the astrophysical heavy-ion fusion reactions will also be presented.

Presentation materials

Slides

X.Tang-OMEG2017.pdf