Research Highlights

Here we provide short descriptive summaries of the major accomplishments and highlights of JINA research so far.

Research Highlights (2009 - 2011)
Research Highlights (2006 - 2008)
Research Highlights (2003 - 2005)

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MA 1: Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution Year 2009 - 2011 A Jet-Gastarget for the St. George recoil mass separator BD+44:493 A Ninth Magnitude Messenger from the Early Universe Injection of 60Fe into the Solar System Nuclear Astrophysics at HIgS Neutron poisoning efficiency of 16O in the s-process SDSS Imaging Enables Metallicity Maps of the Disks and Halos of the Milky Way Experimental study of 11,12B(n,g) reactions for r-process nucleosynthesis Experimental investigation of the reactions 25Mg(a,n)28Si, 26Mg(a,n)29Si and 18O(a,n)21Ne Oxygen Abundances for a Large Sample of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars 15N(p,g) Experiment and R-Matrix Analysis Direct Measurement of 69Br Ground State Proton Emission and Implications for the rp-Process The Cross Section of the 14N(p,g)15O Reaction in the CNO Cycle Searches for Unrecognized Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars The Halos of the Milky Way	MA 2: Accreting White Dwarfs         Year 2009 - 2011 Gamow-Teller transitions to 64Cu measured with the 64Zn(t,3He) reaction (Image) Fusion Reactions at the Limits of Stability Collisions between two White Dwarfs 3D - The Next Crucial Step in Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations Systematic Influence of 22Ne on Type Ia Supernovae Dynamics Test of extroplating models for heavy Ion fusion reactions at extreme sub-barrier energies Trends in 44Ti and 56Ni from Core-Collapse Supernovaes Systematic Study of a-Optical Potentials for p-Process Mass Measurements with Penning Traps and Reaction Q-values
MA 3: Neutron Stars Year 2009 - 2011 Decay studies of rp-process waiting points 96Cd, 98In, and 100Sn Cooling Neutron Star Crusts “Faster reacting” 12C + 12C: Implications for neutron star superbursts Understanding X-ray Bursts The (a, p)-process in X-Ray Bursts: Reaction rates studied with Radioactive Ion Beams at ATLAS Constraints on Neutron Star Crusts from Oscillations in Giant Flares Possible Resonances in the 12C+12C Fusion Rate and Superburst Ignition Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Multi-species Neutron Star Crust Conductivity Reaction Rate Sensitivity in the Neutrino p-Process	Outreach and Synergy Year 2009 - 2011 Math, Science, and Technology (MST) Program @ MSU 2009 PIXE-PAN 2009 @ Notre Dame Physics of the Atomic Nuclei (PAN) Program @ MSU 2009 Sensing Our World Go Green @ Notre Dame 2009 The Heart of the Milky Way Revealed by NASA's Great Observatories 2009

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