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Precision Measurements to Test the Standard Model and for Explosive Nuclear Astrophysics

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Precision measurements in nuclear physics are an area of active study, serving as an important avenue of research for a wide variety of subfields. In this dissertation, three cases will be presented, one concerning a test of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model, and two addressing different astrophysical nucleosynthesis processes. This chapter motivates these experimental endeavors and provides an introduction to the physics of interest in each of these cases.

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    Reprinted from Mumpower et al. [78], Copyright 2016, with permission from Elsevier.

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    Reprinted from Mumpower et al. [78], Copyright 2016, with permission from Elsevier.

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