1968/01/22 by David Bodansky, Donald D. Clayton, William A. Fowler · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Nuclear physics research studies #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Neutrino Physics Research #Silicon #Nucleosynthesis #Abundance (ecology) #Physics #Range (aeronautics) #Nuclear physics #Isotopes of silicon #Nuclear reaction #Atomic physics #Materials science #Biology #Ecology
paper · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.20.161
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Silicon burning at temperatures in the neighborhood of 4 \ifmmode×\else\texttimes\fi 109 \ifmmode^∘\else\textdegree\fiK has been studied with the aid of a quasiequilibrium model which describes the abundance of the nuclei in the interval 28<~A<~62. It is found that, for a broad range of temperatures and densities, silicon burning leads to nuclear abundance distributions which match important features of the natural solar-system abundance distributions and that a large nuclear energy release accompanies silicon burning.