Abstract

The concept of the r-process path is considered from the standpoint of a dynamic model. Rapid nucleosynthesis is shown to proceed not along certain preferential lines called the r-process paths but in the region of nuclei bounded on the one side by the existing nuclei and on the other side by nuclei upon reaching which the r-process enters a cooling phase. This view is shown to account for the main heavy-element abundance patterns.

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