https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818401004
The s-process in stellar sites
1
Osservatorio Astronomico d'Abruzzo,
via Maggini,
64100 Teramo, Italy
2
Sezione INFN di Perugia,
via Pascoli,
06123 Perugia, Italy
* e-mail: sergio.cristallo@inaf.it
Published online: 29 June 2018
Stars are marvellous caldrons where all the elements of the Universe (apartfrom hydrogen and helium) have been synthesized. The solar system chemical distri-butionis the result of many pollution episodes from already extinct stellar generations, occurred at different epochs before the Sun formation. Main nucleosynthesis channels re-sponsiblefor the formation of heavy elements are the rapid neutron capture process (ther-process) and the slow neutron capture process (the s-process). Hereafter, I will describethe theory of the s-process and the stellar sites where it is active.
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