https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201610904001
Reactions on the surface and inside of neutron stars
Argonne National Laboratory, Physics Division, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA
a Corresponding author: rehm@anl.gov
Published online: 12 February 2016
Measurements from orbiting X-ray satellites during the last decades have provided us with a wealth of information about nuclear reactions thought to occur in the extreme, highdensity environment of neutron stars. With radioactive ion beams from first-generation facilities we have begun to study some of these processes in the laboratory. In this contribution I report on experiments performed with radioactive beams from the ATLAS accelerator at Argonne. I will discuss the nuclear physics of X-ray bursts and super-bursts, the production of in-flight radioactive beams, as well as novel detectors which are used in these experiments.
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