Distinguished Lecture on Gravitational Waves

• "Einstein's Waves: Cosmic Sounds from Black Holes and Neutron Stars”, Prof. Vicky Kalogera
• 7-8pm Wed Sept 29. Lincoln Hall Theater, and Online
• for Online: register here for Zoom

Fusion in the Sun

• Reactions and products
  • deuterium
  • positrons
  • neutrinos
• Where does the energy come from?
• A prizewinning theory

The Evidence: Solar Neutrinos

• Radiochemical experiments
  • The pioneer: Ray Davis and the Homestake Mine experiment
• Scattering experiments
  • Super-Kamiokande (Japan): gallery phototube and partially filled detector volume; detection techinque and neutrino events; Super-K neutrino image of the Sun
    
  • Sudbury Neutrino Observatory and SNOLAB (Canada) ; detector images
  • Borexino in Gran Sasso, Italy
• The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Coda: Cosmic Gall, by John Updike

Hydrogen Burning in Stars

• hydrogen burning and the Main Sequence
• the CNO cycle

Reaction Rates

• cross section
• mean free path and time
• energy production rate
• hydrogen burning rates