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S-process

Index S-process

The slow neutron-capture process, or s-process, is a series of reactions in nuclear astrophysics that occur in stars, particularly asymptotic giant branch stars. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 65 relations: Abundance of the chemical elements, Alpha decay, Alpha particle, Annals of Physics, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Antimony, Asymptotic giant branch, Atomic mass, Atomic nucleus, Atomic number, B2FH paper, Barium, Beta decay, Beta-decay stable isobars, Bismuth, Carbon-burning process, Cosmic dust, CRC Press, Donald D. Clayton, Electron, Gamma ray, Hans Suess, Harold Urey, Heavy metals, Inert gas, Iron, Isotope, Isotopes of lead, Krypton, Lead, Mass number, Neutron, Neutron capture, Neutron flux, Neutron source, Noble gas, Nuclear astrophysics, Nuclear reaction, Nuclear shell model, Nucleosynthesis, Paul W. Merrill, Polonium, Polonium-210, Presolar grains, Quantum mechanics, R-process, Radioactive decay, Radionuclide, Red giant, Reviews of Modern Physics, ... Expand index (15 more) »

  2. Neutron
  3. Nucleosynthesis

Abundance of the chemical elements

The abundance of the chemical elements is a measure of the occurrence of the chemical elements relative to all other elements in a given environment.

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Alpha decay

Alpha decay or α-decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle (helium nucleus) and thereby transforms or "decays" into a different atomic nucleus, with a mass number that is reduced by four and an atomic number that is reduced by two. S-process and alpha decay are nuclear physics.

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Alpha particle

Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus.

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Annals of Physics

Annals of Physics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of physics.

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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics is an annual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Annual Reviews.

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Antimony

Antimony is a chemical element; it has symbol Sb and atomic number 51.

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Asymptotic giant branch

The asymptotic giant branch (AGB) is a region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram populated by evolved cool luminous stars.

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Atomic mass

The atomic mass (ma or m) is the mass of an atom.

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Atomic nucleus

The atomic nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford based on the 1909 Geiger–Marsden gold foil experiment. S-process and atomic nucleus are nuclear physics.

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Atomic number

The atomic number or nuclear charge number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the charge number of an atomic nucleus. S-process and atomic number are nuclear physics.

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B2FH paper

The B2FH paper was a landmark scientific paper on the origin of the chemical elements. S-process and B2FH paper are astrophysics, nuclear physics and nucleosynthesis.

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Barium

Barium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ba and atomic number 56.

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Beta decay

In nuclear physics, beta decay (β-decay) is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits a beta particle (fast energetic electron or positron), transforming into an isobar of that nuclide. S-process and beta decay are nuclear physics.

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Beta-decay stable isobars

Beta-decay stable isobars are the set of nuclides which cannot undergo beta decay, that is, the transformation of a neutron to a proton or a proton to a neutron within the nucleus. S-process and beta-decay stable isobars are nuclear physics.

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Bismuth

Bismuth is a chemical element; it has symbol Bi and atomic number 83.

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Carbon-burning process

The carbon-burning process or carbon fusion is a set of nuclear fusion reactions that take place in the cores of massive stars (at least 8 \beginsmallmatrixM_\odot\endsmallmatrix at birth) that combines carbon into other elements. S-process and carbon-burning process are nucleosynthesis.

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Cosmic dust

Cosmic dustalso called extraterrestrial dust, space dust, or star dustis dust that occurs in outer space or has fallen onto Earth.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.

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Donald D. Clayton

Donald Delbert Clayton (March 18, 1935 – January 3, 2024) was an American astrophysicist whose most visible achievement was the prediction from nucleosynthesis theory that supernovae are intensely radioactive.

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Electron

The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.

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Gamma ray

A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. S-process and gamma ray are nuclear physics.

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Hans Suess

Hans Eduard Suess (December 16, 1909 – September 20, 1993) was an Austrian-born American physical chemist and nuclear physicist.

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Harold Urey

Harold Clayton Urey (April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium.

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Heavy metals

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Inert gas

An inert gas is a gas that does not readily undergo chemical reactions with other chemical substances and therefore does not readily form chemical compounds.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Isotope

Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element. S-process and Isotope are nuclear physics.

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Isotopes of lead

Lead (82Pb) has four observationally stable isotopes: 204Pb, 206Pb, 207Pb, 208Pb.

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Krypton

Krypton (from translit 'the hidden one') is a chemical element; it has symbol Kr and atomic number 36.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Mass number

The mass number (symbol A, from the German word: Atomgewicht, "atomic weight"), also called atomic mass number or nucleon number, is the total number of protons and neutrons (together known as nucleons) in an atomic nucleus.

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Neutron

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Neutron capture

Neutron capture is a nuclear reaction in which an atomic nucleus and one or more neutrons collide and merge to form a heavier nucleus. S-process and neutron capture are neutron and nuclear physics.

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Neutron flux

The neutron flux is a scalar quantity used in nuclear physics and nuclear reactor physics. S-process and neutron flux are neutron.

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Neutron source

A neutron source is any device that emits neutrons, irrespective of the mechanism used to produce the neutrons. S-process and neutron source are neutron.

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Noble gas

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Nuclear astrophysics

Nuclear astrophysics is an interdisciplinary part of both nuclear physics and astrophysics, involving close collaboration among researchers in various subfields of each of these fields. S-process and nuclear astrophysics are astrophysics and nuclear physics.

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Nuclear reaction

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two nuclei, or a nucleus and an external subatomic particle, collide to produce one or more new nuclides. S-process and nuclear reaction are nuclear physics.

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Nuclear shell model

In nuclear physics, atomic physics, and nuclear chemistry, the nuclear shell model utilizes the Pauli exclusion principle to model the structure of atomic nuclei in terms of energy levels. S-process and nuclear shell model are nuclear physics.

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Nucleosynthesis

Nucleosynthesis is the process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons (protons and neutrons) and nuclei. S-process and Nucleosynthesis are astrophysics and nuclear physics.

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Paul W. Merrill

Paul Willard Merrill (August 15, 1887 – July 19, 1961) was an American astronomer whose specialty was spectroscopy.

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Polonium

Polonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Po and atomic number 84.

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Polonium-210

Polonium-210 (210Po, Po-210, historically radium F) is an isotope of polonium.

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Presolar grains

Presolar grains are interstellar solid matter in the form of tiny solid grains that originated at a time before the Sun was formed. S-process and Presolar grains are nucleosynthesis.

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Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.

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R-process

In nuclear astrophysics, the rapid neutron-capture process, also known as the r-process, is a set of nuclear reactions that is responsible for the creation of approximately half of the atomic nuclei heavier than iron, the "heavy elements", with the other half produced by the p-process and ''s''-process. S-process and r-process are astrophysics, neutron, nuclear physics and nucleosynthesis.

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Radioactive decay

Radioactive decay (also known as nuclear decay, radioactivity, radioactive disintegration, or nuclear disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation.

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Radionuclide

A radionuclide (radioactive nuclide, radioisotope or radioactive isotope) is a nuclide that has excess numbers of either neutrons or protons, giving it excess nuclear energy, and making it unstable. S-process and radionuclide are nuclear physics.

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Red giant

A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass (roughly 0.3–8 solar masses) in a late phase of stellar evolution.

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Reviews of Modern Physics

Reviews of Modern Physics (often abbreviated RMP) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Physical Society.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Seed nucleus

A seed nucleus is an isotope that is the starting point for any of a variety of fusion chain reactions. S-process and seed nucleus are nuclear physics.

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Silicon carbide

Silicon carbide (SiC), also known as carborundum, is a hard chemical compound containing silicon and carbon.

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Stable nuclide

Stable nuclides are nuclides that are not radioactive and so (unlike radionuclides) do not spontaneously undergo radioactive decay.

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Strontium

Strontium is a chemical element; it has symbol Sr and atomic number 38.

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Table of nuclides

A table or chart of nuclides is a two-dimensional graph of isotopes of the elements, in which one axis represents the number of neutrons (symbol N) and the other represents the number of protons (atomic number, symbol Z) in the atomic nucleus.

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

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Technetium

Technetium is a chemical element; it has symbol Tc and atomic number 43.

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The Astrophysical Journal

The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of astrophysics and astronomy, established in 1895 by American astronomers George Ellery Hale and James Edward Keeler.

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Thorium

Thorium is a chemical element.

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Triple-alpha process

The triple-alpha process is a set of nuclear fusion reactions by which three helium-4 nuclei (alpha particles) are transformed into carbon. S-process and triple-alpha process are nucleosynthesis.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Valley of stability

In nuclear physics, the valley of stability (also called the belt of stability, nuclear valley, energy valley, or beta stability valley) is a characterization of the stability of nuclides to radioactivity based on their binding energy. S-process and valley of stability are nuclear physics.

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Xenon

Xenon is a chemical element; it has symbol Xe and atomic number 54.

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Yttrium

Yttrium is a chemical element; it has symbol Y and atomic number 39.

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See also

Neutron

Nucleosynthesis

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-process

Also known as S process, S-process element.

, Science (journal), Seed nucleus, Silicon carbide, Stable nuclide, Strontium, Table of nuclides, Taylor & Francis, Technetium, The Astrophysical Journal, Thorium, Triple-alpha process, Uranium, Valley of stability, Xenon, Yttrium.