Talk:Rp-process

Rp-process vesus X-ray bursts
Much of the material covered in this article is also relevant to the wiki on X-ray bursts. I would like us to consider how we can best integrate this material. DAID 10:56, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Tellurium
I revised the sentence which claimed that lighter isotopes of Tellurium are thought to be stable and added the comment that they could potentially be proton-bound. A quick visit to the National Nuclear Data Center's chart of nuclei makes it apparent that 105Te is already quite far from stability itself. I have little justification for including the possibility of lighter Te isotopes being proton bound, however I believe it is justifiable seeing as the proton drip line is territory on the frontier of nuclear physics. While the presence of theoretical thermonuclear reaction rate data (for example: ) does not necessarily indicate a nucleus is bound, it does indicate that physicists believe an isotope might have some finite lifetime.--Potentialwell (talk) 19:33, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

This is a reasonable edit. Probably I authored "stable" for these proton-rich Te isotopes meaning proton-bound, which was not as clear as it could be, since I had assumed that these are all known to be beta-decayers (and that the rp-process is running entirely in the beta-plus-unstable zone). DAID (talk) 01:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 05:01, 30 April 2016 (UTC)