FRIB Nuclear Astrophysics Connection Hub
JINA-CEE
FRIB offers unprecedented opportunities in nuclear astrophysics to understand element synthesis and compact stellar objects. Close collaboration between nuclear scientists and astrophysicists will be essential to develop the early experiment proposals that maximize the impact on the field.
JINA-CEE has identified a number of astrophysicists that are interested in contributing to proposal development and would be available to help or to collaborate with nuclear theorists and experimentalists. Feel free to contact them! Young researchers are especially encouraged to take this opportunity to establish research networks.
Astrophysics Contact List:
Expertise: Nucleosynthesis of heavy elements
Expertise: Kilonova modeling, in particular radiation transport and the energetics of r-process decay
"r-process transients and the connection to nuclear physics"
Expertise: Modeling of accreting neutron stars and connections with understanding the dense matter EOS
"Nuclear processes in acceting neutron stars"
Expertise: Numerical simulations of neutron-capture nucleosynthesis at neutron densities intermediate between those characteristic of the s- and r-process
"Theoretical estimates of (n,g) reaction-rate uncertainties for unstable trans-iron isotopes having the strongest impact on the abundances of heavy elements observed in metal-poor stars"
Expertise: Stellar abundance observations
"Cosmo-chronometry with Th, U and Pb"
Expertise: Core collapse supernova nucleosynthesis
Slides
"Neutrino p-process; CCSNe, explosive nucleosynthesis"
Expertise: Nucleosynthetic yields from astrophysical transients and tying those yields to NASA observatories
"Gamma Astronomy, Supernovae, and Common Envelopes"
Expertise: Massive star nucleosynthesis and accreting neutron stars
Massive Star Outcomes: Nuclear Astophysics, Stellar Structure and Nuclear Needs
Falk Herwig
University of Victoria
fherwig@uvic.ca
Expertise: Stellar modeling in 1D and 3D, interaction of nucleosynthesis and convection, i process
"Nuclear Data Needs for Convective-Reactive Nucleosynthesis"
Expertise: R-process astrophysics and electromagnetic astronomical observables
"Astrophysical Sites of the r-Process"
Expertise: Physics of accretion disks formed by collapsing, rapidly-rotating stars and neutron star mergers and how accurate neutrino physics ties into the nuclear physics and affects observables
"Neutrinos in Compact Accretion Flows "
Expertise: Nuclear physics of neutron-rich nuclei; r-process simulations
"Fission studies for the r-process"
Expertise: Production of stellar yields by low mass stars and massive stars for galactic chemical evolution, impact studies of nuclear reaction rates and comparisons with observations
"Aligning nuclear experiments with stellar nucleosynthesis with NuGrid"
Sanjay Reddy
Univesity of Washington
sareddy@uw.edu
Expertise: Many body theory of dense matter, role of neutrinos and dense matter in astrophysics and nucleosynthesis
Slides
"Nuclear EOS and low energy response for astrophysics "
Luke Roberts
Michigan State University
RobertsL@frib.msu.edu
Expertise: Neutrino transport in dense matter, the impact of the nuclear physics on core-collapse supernovae and proto-neutron star cooling, and nucleosynthesis in neutron star mergers
"The properties of the proto-neutron star neutrino sphere"
Expertise: Deriving stellar abundances of heavy elements produced by the r-process to create a more complete and accurate inventory of the abundance pattern(s) produced by r-process nucleosynthesis events
"FRIB, stars, and r-process elements "
Expertise: r-process nucleosynthesis, including nuclear data sensitivities and uncertainty quantification
"Nuclear data and the interpretation of r-process observables"
Expertise: Stellar and nuclear astrophysics, and community-driven open software instruments
"Stellar Modeling Services for New FRIB Reaction Rate Measurements "
Nicole Vassh
University of Notre Dame
nvassh@nd.edu
