Astrophysical Rates for Explosive Nucleosynthesis: Stellar and Laboratory Rates for Exotic Nuclei

Abstract

A selected overview of stellar effects and reaction mechanisms with relevance to the prediction of astrophysical reaction rates far off stability is provided.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures (contining 2 subfigures each); Proceedings of 10th Intl. Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Beijing, China, August 2009; to appear in Nuclear Physics A