Wigner 111 - Colourful and Deep

Session

Astrophysics

12 Nov 2013, 08:30

Ceremonial Hall (Díszterem) (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

96. The quest for gravitational waves: Status of the current ground-based projects I.

Prof. Jean-Yves Vinet

12/11/2013, 08:30

55. The quest for gravitational waves: Status of the current ground-based projects II.

Prof. Federico Ferrini

12/11/2013, 08:55

With the aim to detect gravitational waves, in the last 15 years a few large interferometers have been constructed and were operating in various Continents. This first generation has demostrated the validity of the fundamental ideas and stimulated the study for the up-grade to higher sensitivity instruments, at present under construction. The purpose of the talk is to show which level...

56. ET: the Einstein Telescope; designing the third Generation of Gravitational Wave

Prof. Harald Lück

12/11/2013, 09:20

76. Gravitational Wave Detection from Space: The eLISA Mission

Prof. Karsten Danzmann

12/11/2013, 09:45

More than 90 years ago, Einstein predicted the existence of Gravitational Waves as a consequence of his theory of General Relativity. They are minute distortions of space and time, created by rapidly accelerating large masses, and propagating at the speed of light. Several kilometer-size laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors are currently operating on the earth. They will soon...

88. The LUNA experiment at Gran Sasso Laboratory

Prof. Alessandra Guglielmetti

12/11/2013, 10:30

Cross sections of nuclear reactions powering stars are essential ingredients for element nucleosynthesis, energy generation and neutrino fluxes in stellar environments. The low value of such cross sections at astrophysically relevant energies prevents their measurement in a laboratory at the Earth's surface due to the unfavorable signal-to-noise ratio. The LUNA collaboration installed two...

57. The unreasonable effectiveness of experiments in constraining nova nucleosynthesis

Prof. Anjou Parikh

12/11/2013, 10:55

Classical nova explosions arise from thermonuclear ignition in the envelopes of accreting white dwarfs in close binary star systems. Detailed observations of novae have stimulated numerous studies in theoretical astrophysics and experimental nuclear physics. These phenomena are unusual in nuclear astrophysics because most of the thermonuclear reaction rates thought to be involved are...

58. The Trojan Horse Method: Recent Applications to Nuclear Astrophysics

Prof. Claudio Spitaleri

12/11/2013, 11:20

In the last decades, impressive improvements in astronomical observations and in computational models of stellar structure and evolution have made it possible for the first time to significantly improve our understanding of energy generation and nucleosynthesis processes that take place in a variety of astrophysical sites. Nuclear reactions in such environments remain a key ingredient for the...

54. Colored condensates deep inside compact stars

Prof. David Blaschke

12/11/2013, 11:45

Since Eugene Wigner was awarded the Nobel prize for his discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles, particularly in nuclear and elementary particle physics, our understanding of strong interactions within quantum chromodynamics is based more than ever on these concepts. I will demonstrate how in the absence of solutions for QCD under conditions deep inside compact stars...