Open Challenges to Nuclear Physics Resulting from Neutron Start Merger event GW170817
Published: September 2021 Aprahamian
The GW170817 observation of gravitational waves resulting from the merger of two neutron stars in a constellation 132 million light years away, still promisees to be one of the most significant discoveries of the 21st century. The gravitational waves along with 70 electromagnetic transients solved one of the open challenges of physics and astrophysics about a site for the r-process (rapid neutron capture) and the synthesis of the heavy elements. However, it also triggered a number of unresolved nuclear physics questions. Learn more
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