报告题目: Solving the Mystery of the Origin of Heavy Nuclei
报告人: Prof. Taka Kajino
Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Int. Research Center for Big-Bang Cosmology and Element Genesis, Beihang University
报告时间: 3月30日（周四）下午3:00
报告地点: 北京大学物理学院7802会议室
报告摘要:The origin of heavy elements heavier than iron like Au and U are still unknown although sixty years have already passed since the benchmark paper B2FH on the origin of elements in the Universe was published in 1957. GW emitters of both binary neutron-star mergers (NSMs) and core-collapse supernovae (SNe) are viable candidates for the production site of heavy elements called r-process elements. SN models of magneto-rotationally driven jets (MHD-Jet SNe) naturally explain the “universality” in the observed abundance pattern between the solar-system and extremely metal-poor halo stars in the Milky Way halo or ultra-faint dwarf galaxies. However, full understanding of their explosion mechanism is still in progress. NSM models, on the other hand, have a serious difficulty that their arrival delays due to very slow GW radiation at least 100 My (“time-scale problem”), which could not contribute to the early galaxies. We will first discuss that our high-resolution N- body/SPH simulation of Galactic chemo-dynamical evolution solve this “time-scale problem” partially, leaving a serious discrepancy in the early Galactic evolution. We will then propose a new theoretical model such that the MHD-Jet SNe first contribute to the enrichment of heavy elements in the early galaxies, then the NSMs follow gradually towards the solar system. Our new model satisfies the “universality” and predicts several specific observational evidences for the time evolution of isotopic abundance pattern. We will discuss the roles of nuclear physics in solving this mystery of the origin of heavy elements.
联系人：孟杰（[email protected]）