Week 1:Selected features of astronomy ‘observing the universe’ and of astrophysics ‘explaining the universe’
Week 2:General characteristics of thermonuclear reactions, sources of nuclear energy, Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distribution
Week 3:Cross section, stellar reaction rates, mean lifetime; astrophysical s – factor, abundance evolution
Week 4:Neutron and charged particle induced non-resonant reactions, reactions through narrow and broad resonances
Week 5:p-p chain, CNO, NeNa and MgAl cycles
Week 6:Creation and survival of 12C, Nucleosynthesis beyond iron peak (s – process, r – process, p – process)
Week 7:General aspects of experiments: Accelerators for beams of charged particles, neutrons and gamma rays, detectors, target materials, electronic pulse processing modules
Week 8:Experimental methods to study nuclear astrophysics: Activity method, Coulomb dissociation, Trojan Horse and ANC methods; radioactive ion beams
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