Nucleosynthesis in 2D Core-Collapse Supernova Long-Term Simulations of 11.2 and 17.0 \(\text{M}_{ \odot }\) Progenitors

Abstract

We perform detailed nucleosynthesis calculations for two long-term, 2D simulations of core-collapse supernovae. We find that elements are produced up to Ru (Z = 44) and observe abundance patterns that are characteristic of a νp-process. One important characteristic of the long-term simulation is that there is still accretion of matter onto the proto-neutron star and unbinding of matter in some other regions at the time when the simulations stop (around 7s). Dividing the tracer particles into different bins according to their peak temperatures enables us to study and compare the nuclear compositions of these bins for the different simulations.