https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01560-2
Review
Overview of stellar nucleosynthesis in explosive environments and recent experimental highlights
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, 87545, Los Alamos, NM, USA
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Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, Lemont, IL, USA
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Department of Physics, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, UK
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Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Northern Border University, 13211, Arar, Saudi Arabia
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 94550, Livermore, CA, USA
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Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 37830, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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Grand Accèlérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Caen, France
Received:
21
December
2024
Accepted:
4
April
2025
Published online:
8
May
2025
Explosive stellar environments such as neutron star mergers, supernovae and X-ray bursts contribute significantly to the synthesis of many chemical elements known in the universe. Understanding the underlying explosion mechanisms and stellar conditions, as well as the observed signatures of chemical elements at a variety of these sites require a considerable effort from the nuclear physics community. An overview of several explosive stellar environments have been summarized, along with brief highlights of recent experimental efforts to better constrain the nucleosynthesis from these environments using recent advances of rare isotope beam facilities and measurement techniques.
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