Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005phdt.........7c&link_type=abstract
Ph.D dissertation, 2005. Section 0303, Part 0606 175 pages; Canada: University of Manitoba (Canada); 2005. Publication Number:
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
2
Astrophysical, Rp-Process, Atomic Mass
Scientific paper
The Canadian Penning Trap (CPT) mass spectrometer at the Argonne National Laboratory makes precise mass measurements of both stable and unstable nuclides. To date, more than 60 radioactive isotopes having half-lives as short as one second have been measured with the CPT with a precision (D m/m ) approaching 10 -8 . This thesis will present measurements made of nuclides along the rp-process path, which describes a process resulting from a series of rapid proton-capture reactions in an astrophysical environment. One possible site for the rp-process mechanism is an x-ray burst which results from the rapid accretion of hydrogen and helium from one star onto the surface of its neutron star binary companion. Mass measurements are required as key inputs to network calculations used to describe the rp-process in terms of the abundances of the nuclides produced, the light-curve profile of the x-ray bursts, and the energy produced. This thesis will describe the CPT apparatus, explain the method used to make precise mass measurements, and present the masses of the "waiting-point" nuclides 68 Se and 64 Ge. The mass measurement results, when used in x-ray burst models, confirm both 68 Se and 64 Ge as waiting-point nuclides which delay the rp-process by approximately 30 s and 7 s respectively.
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