ChANUREPS is an open-access platform where nuclear astrophysics data can be exchanged and other users can find them easily and in a simple format.
Why use ChANUREPS?
ChANUREPS is meant to be a useful service for the community to allow any scientist that calculated or measured a new rate and would like to have this advertised and used more by the community, to quickly share it once published. Additionally, on ChANUREPS users can find some of the newest evaluations and measurements of nuclear reaction rates in a single place, together with their related publications.
Main nuclear libraries for astrophysics
The main difference between ChANUREPS and the main nuclear libraries for astrophysics is that there is not any “superuser” selection, or recommended set of nuclear reactions. New nuclear rates are directly provided by the authors in a standard format once published and inserted into their relevant categories, in order to be quickly found and downloaded by other users.
We strongly support and encourage all users to regularly check all the main and most established nuclear reaction libraries for astrophysics:
- BRUSLIB: The Brussels Nuclear Library for Astrophysics Applications.
- The Nuclar Network Generator, NETGEN: A tool for generating nuclear-reaction rates on user-defined networks.
- NACRE II: an update and extension of the NACRE compilation of charged-particle-induced thermonuclear reaction rates for astrophysics.
- STARLIB: A state-of-the-art library of thermonuclear reaction rates constructed and maintained by the Department of Physics & Astronomy of the University of North Carolina.
- The JINA Reaclib Database: A database for nuclear reaction rate provided by the JINA Center for the Evolution of the Elements.
- ASTRAL: ASTrophysical Rate and rAw data Library
Who made it?
Thanks to the support from ChETEC-INFRA, ChANUREPS has been developed by Umberto Battino, a PDRA at the University of Hull. His main research area is stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis, with a particular focus on the advanced evolutionary phases of low and intermediate-mass stars, type Ia supernovae progenitors and on the origin of elements heavier than iron in the Solar System. Umberto is also a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu purple belt (2 x British champion and 2 x Italian champion), a big supporter of Juventus F.C., a scotch whisky enthusiast and a dog lover (in the picture, his beloved German Shepherd Gracie between Umberto and his wife Jem, right after a swim in the Isle of Skye).
