The r-Process in Black Hole Winds
Keywords
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Nuclear Experiment, Nuclear Theory
Abstract
All the current r-process scenarios relevant to core-collapse supernovae are facing severe difficulties. In particular, recent core-collapse simulations with neutrino transport show no sign of a neutron-rich wind from the proto-neutron star. In this paper, we discuss nucleosynthesis of the r-process in an alternative astrophysical site, _s15black hole winds_s15, which are the neutrino-driven outflow from the accretion torus around a black hole. This condition is assumed to be realized in double neutron star mergers, neutron star - black hole mergers, or hypernovae.
