id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 8s45q814p14 Trevor Sprouse New Techniques for the Analysis of Astrophysical Nucleosynthesis 2020 .txt text/plain 185 4 -11 In this work, I develop a collection of computational tools and analytical techniques that provide insight into astrophysical nucleosynthesis, specifically in the areas of quantitatively propagating uncertainties from nuclear properties to nucleosynthesis calculations; isolating the specific role of individual nuclear properties in complex nucleosynthesis processes; and combining nucleosynthesis calculations with astrophysical observations to evaluate nuclear models. The extreme conditions that can arise in astrophysical environments enable nuclear transmutation processes to take place, by which atomic nuclei interact with their environment or decay to form new nuclei. cache/8s45q814p14.txt txt/8s45q814p14.txt