Git repository containing Tuesday's activity for NS3 School 2020
Nuclear physics processes have powered the creation of elements since the Bing Bang. The creation of all chemical elements found in nature is called nucleosynthesis and occurs within stars, stellar collisions, stellar explosions, and many others. Evidence of the nuclear physics involved in these events is observed in the abundances of the chemical elements in the solar system. We will present some of the nucleosynthesis processes found in nature and discuss how nuclear physics properties (masses, binding energies, reaction rates) shape the creation of elements and how those signatures can be observed. In the activity you will have the opportunity to see the importance of some of those nuclear physics properties in the creation of elements.
Please watch the recorded 30-min lecture before we start
11:00 - 11:15 Group discussion of recorded lecture
11:15 - 11:30 Splitting up in groups to discuss and form questions about the recorded lecture
11:30 - 11:45 Q&A where every group will ask one question (more if we have time)
11:45 - 12:00 Introduction to the activity - background material
12:00 - 01:45 Activity
01:45 - 02:00 Final discussion
The Jupyter Notebook can be run from Binder:
