Lecturers: Brian D. Fields, William Raphael Hix, Hendrik Schatz, Gail McLaughlin, George Fuller

Schedule, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3

• Gail 1: Review of potential r-process sites

• George 1: Neutrinos, the weak interaction, and primordial nucleosynthesis I

• Will discuss decoupling and freeze-out of particles in the early universe, with special emphasis on neutrino decoupling

• Gail 2: Weak interactions in the r-process

• George 2: Neutrinos, the weak interaction, and primordial nucleosynthesis II

• Continuation of lecture (1), but now with an emphasis on the coupling of neutrinos and isospin, and therefore nucleosynthesis

• Gail 3: Role of nuclear data in determining the abundance pattern

• George 3: Weak Interaction pre-, peri- and post-collapse

• Will discuss weak interaction physics during pre-collapse, hydrostatic evolution; the nuclear and weak interaction physics of collapse

• George 4: Neutrino Physics

• Will discuss neutrino flavor oscillations, neutrino spin flip, and other issues in neutrino physics relevant for nuclear astrophysics

• George 5: Outstanding issues in neutrino physics, compact object physics, and cosmology

• Will explore how models of core collapse supernova/compact object merger r-process nucleosynthesis and issues in primordial nucleosynthesis and the cosmic microwave background could be impacted by new neutrino sector physics