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Präsentiert in der Neuauflage Themen wie "Spallationsreaktionen kosmischer Strahlen", "Nukleosynthese und Urknall" und "Explosives Ende massereicher Sterne" sowie aktualisierte Kapitel. Damit ist auch die Neuauflage das Standardlehrbuch im Grundstudium der Nuklearen Astrophysik.

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Now including the topics "cosmis-ray spallation reactions", "big bang nucleosynthesis", and "explosive burning in massive stars" and an update of existing sections keeps this standard graduate level textbook in nuclear astrophysics up-to-date.

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Most elements are synthesized, or "cooked", by thermonuclear reactions in stars. The newly formed
elements are released into the interstellar medium during a star´s lifetime, and are subsequently
incorporated into a new generation of stars, into the planets that form around the stars, and into the life
forms that originate on the planets. Moreover, the energy we depend on for life originates from nuclear
reactions that occur at the center of the Sun. Synthesis of the elements and nuclear energy production
in stars are the topics of nuclear astrophysics, which is the subject of this book. It presents nuclear
structure and reactions, thermonuclear reaction rates, experimental nuclear methods, and nucleosynthesis
in detail. These topics are discussed in a coherent way, enabling the reader to grasp their interconnections
intuitively. The book serves both as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, with
worked examples and end-of-chapter excercises, but also as a reference book for use by researchers
working in the field of nuclear astrophysics.

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Christian Iliadis is Professor of Physics & Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a nuclear astrophysicist at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory. He received the prestigious University of North Carolina Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2014.

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