Photonuclear Reactions in Astrophysics

Abstract

A brief overview of the importance of photodisintegration reactions in astrophysical environments is given and the relevance of photonuclear experiments for nucleosynthesis studies is discussed.

Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures; overview article for non-experts; to appear in Nuclear Physics News; v2: same as v1 (my mistake); v3: added sentence to conclusions; updated references