25–30 May 2025
Daejeon Convention Center (DCC)
Asia/Seoul timezone

Discovering the most important temperatures of helium burning reactions in pair-instability supernova nucleosynthesis

26 May 2025, 18:05
15m
Room 4: 1F #101 (DCC)

Room 4: 1F #101

DCC

Contributed Oral Presentation Nuclear Astrophysics Parallel Session

Speaker

Hiroki Kawashimo (The University of Tokyo)

Description

Pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) are the final fates of massive stars with an initial mass ranging from 140-260 $M_\odot$. Due to the efficient $^{56}\mathrm{Ni}$ nucleosynthesis, PISNe can be very luminous phenomena. According to some previous works, not only the PISN progenitor evolution but also the PISN nucleosynthesis is affected from $^{12}\mathrm{C}(\alpha,\gamma)^{16}\mathrm{O}$ reaction rate strongly. However, these works are based on the reaction rate tables changed high or low in all temperatures despite the strong dependence of nuclear reactions on temperature. In this work, we considered the most important temperatures of helium burning reactions for $^{56}\mathrm{Ni}$ nucleosynthesis in PISN using Monte Carlo methods, specifically, we simulated the stellar evolution with randomized helium burning reaction rates, and we obtained the strong correlated temperature for these reactions. In this presentation, we will report the details of the results.

Primary author

Hiroki Kawashimo (The University of Tokyo)

Co-authors

Dr Masaaki Kimura (RIKEN Nishina Center) Dr Nobuya Nishimura (Center for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo) Dr Yudai Suwa (The University of Tokyo, Komaba)

Presentation materials