Speaker
Zach Meisel
(Ohio University)
Description
In the beginning, X-ray burst modeling was data-poor and the number of high-impact nuclear mass measurement opportunities were many. Today the situation has changed. Opportunities still exist, but they are more subtle, requiring consideration of an expanded set of astrophysical conditions and more complex observables. I will argue that we are not at the end of rp-process nuclear mass measurements, nor even the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning.