Astrophysical S-Factors in Primordial Nucleosynthesis: A Comprehensive Review
暫譯: 原始核合成中的天體物理S因子：全面回顧

本書提供了來自300多個實驗的S因子數據的全面彙編，涵蓋了18個在大爆炸核合成（BBN）中的關鍵反應。它對可用數據提供了經驗擬合，並討論了每個反應在BBN更廣泛背景下的相關性。為了支持進一步的研究，本書還包括了一個廣泛的參考書目，對於該領域的專家來說是一個寶貴的資源。

本書以清晰和精確的方式撰寫，旨在讓具備量子力學和基本核物理學扎實理解的研究生能夠輕鬆閱讀。研究人員將發現這是探索BBN實驗基礎及其對宇宙學影響的不可或缺的參考資料。

Carlos Salas is currently a graduate student at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, with research interests in theoretical nuclear physics, particularly in nuclear astrophysics. He graduated with Magna Cum Laude honors and received the semestral academic excellence distinction on two occasions during his undergraduate studies. Over the past year, he has collaborated with Prof. Neelima Kelkar on research topics related to the temperature dependence of nuclear decays and nuclear reactions of relevance to primordial nucleosynthesis.

Neelima Kelkar obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Mumbai, India. Following the completion of her doctoral studies, she held an INFN postdoctoral fellowship at the Frascati National Laboratories in Italy for two years. Subsequently, she undertook visiting research positions at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, the University of Valencia, and the University of Barcelona in Spain. From 1998 to 2002, she served as a permanent research staff member at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai, India. Since August 2002, she has been a faculty member in the Department of Physics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, where she has supervised several Master's theses and a number of doctoral dissertations. Her research interests span a wide range of topics, including hadron physics, parton models, quantum times, tunneling in solid-state junctions, physics of unstable systems, white dwarf physics, nuclear decays, and nuclear astrophysics. She has authored approximately 90 publications. In addition to her research contributions, she has co-edited a special issue of Advances in High Energy Physics titled "Perspectives on Decay and Time Evolution of Metastable States: From Particle Physics to Cosmology" (2018) and the research topic "Exotic Aspects of Hadrons and Nuclei" in Frontiers in Physics (2024). She has also served as a referee for several leading journals in particle and nuclear physics.

Carlos Salas 目前是哥倫比亞安第斯大學的研究生，研究興趣集中在理論核物理，特別是核天體物理學。他以優異的成績（Magna Cum Laude）畢業，並在本科期間兩次獲得學期學術優秀獎。過去一年，他與 Neelima Kelkar 教授合作，研究與核衰變和與原始核合成相關的核反應的溫度依賴性主題。

Neelima Kelkar 於印度孟買大學獲得物理學博士學位。完成博士學位後，她在意大利弗拉斯卡提國家實驗室擔任了兩年的 INFN 博士後研究員。隨後，她在孟買的塔塔基礎研究所、西班牙的瓦倫西亞大學和巴塞羅那大學擔任訪問研究職位。從1998年到2002年，她在印度孟買的巴巴原子研究中心擔任永久研究人員。自2002年8月以來，她一直是哥倫比亞波哥大的安第斯大學物理系的教職員，並指導了多篇碩士論文和若干博士論文。她的研究興趣涵蓋廣泛的主題，包括強子物理、部分子模型、量子時間、固態接合處的隧道效應、不穩定系統的物理、白矮星物理、核衰變和核天體物理學。她已發表約90篇論文。除了研究貢獻外，她還共同編輯了《高能物理進展》特刊，題為「從粒子物理到宇宙學的亞穩態衰變與時間演化的視角」（2018年），以及《物理前沿》中的研究主題「強子和核的奇異特徵」（2024年）。她還擔任多本粒子物理和核物理領域主要期刊的審稿人。