NPTEL - Nuclear Astrophysics
offered by IIT Roorkee

Public/Government Institute
Estd. 1847

Nuclear Astrophysics
at
IIT Roorkee
Overview

Gain a comprehensive overview of the Nuclear Astrophysics principles and concepts

Duration	8 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
Credential	Certificate

Nuclear Astrophysics
at
IIT Roorkee
Highlights

Earn a E- certificate of completion from IIT Roorkee

Nuclear Astrophysics
at
IIT Roorkee
Course details

Skills you will learn

C R Renewable Energy

Who should do this course?

For Physics, Engineering Physics students

More about this course

The purpose of the course is to introduce the emerging field of nuclear astrophysics; a discipline that can identify new observational signatures probing our universe
This discipline has proved to have the potential to categorize the conditions at the core of stars and provide information of energy production from stars, nucleosynthesis and stellar evolution
New initiatives in this domain include the development of experimental facilities (Ex: FRENA in SINP Kolkata), that open new landscapes into the nuclear processes that take place at low energies during the evolutionary phases of stars and in explosive events in galaxies

Nuclear Astrophysics
at
IIT Roorkee
Curriculum

Week 1

Selected features of astronomy ?observing the universe? and of astrophysics ?explaining the universe?

Week 2

General characteristics of thermonuclear reactions

Sources of nuclear energy

Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distribution

Week 3

Cross section

Stellar reaction rates

Mean lifetime

Astrophysical s ? factor

Abundance evolution

Week 4

Neutron and charged particle induced non-resonant reactions

Reactions through narrow and broad resonances

Week 5

p-p chain

CNO

NeNa and MgAl cycles

Week 6

Creation and survival of 12C

Nucleosynthesis beyond iron peak (s ? process, r ? process, p ? process)

Week 7

General aspects of experiments: Accelerators for beams of charged particles, neutrons and gamma rays, detectors, target materials, electronic pulse processing modules

Week 8

Experimental methods to study nuclear astrophysics: Activity method, Coulomb dissociation, Trojan Horse and ANC methods

Radioactive ion beams

Nuclear Astrophysics
at
IIT Roorkee
Faculty details

Prof. Anil Kumar Gourishetty

Prof. Anil Kumar Gourishetty is passionate about teaching at various levels of students. I have been shortlisted in top 15 at institute level (UG category) for outstanding teacher award in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The students strength was in the range of 30 to 180.