1. Making Carbon and Oxygen in Stars
Catalin Matei

2. What is Nuclear Astrophysics?
“ Nuclear Astrophysics addresses the role of nuclear reaction processes as engine of stellar evolution and attempts to find answers to the fundamental questions of the origin of the elements found today throughout the universe”
At Ohio University we simulate stellar conditions with particle accelerators.
Space and ground based telescopes observe the signature of nuclear reactions.

4. Edwards Accelerator Laboratory @ Ohio University
and accelerated to the experimental setup
Protons are produced
by the Cs sputter source