Astro Alchemy: Where Rare Elements Come From
How do you make gold? Simply bombard a nucleus with countless neutrons before it can decay.
Special Thanks to Prof. Rob Jeffries from the Keele Astrophysics Group for his expertise in this area.
Further reading:
r-process nucleosynthesis and kilonovae from hypermassive neutron star post-merger remnants - https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3128
The Complete Explanation of the Nuclear Magic Numbers - https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/magicnumbers2.htm
JWST detection of heavy neutron capture elements in a compact object merger - https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.02098
Special Thanks to Prof. Rob Jeffries from the Keele Astrophysics Group for his expertise in this area.
Further reading:
r-process nucleosynthesis and kilonovae from hypermassive neutron star post-merger remnants - https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3128
The Complete Explanation of the Nuclear Magic Numbers - https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/magicnumbers2.htm
JWST detection of heavy neutron capture elements in a compact object merger - https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.02098
