Neutron Capture Rates and the r-Process Abundance Pattern in Shocked Neutrino-Driven Winds

The r-process is an important process in nucleosynthesis in which nuclei will undergo rapid neutron captures. Models of the r-process require nuclear data such as neutron capture rates for thousands of individual nuclei, many of which lie far from stability. Among the potential sites for the r-process, and the one that we investigate, is the shocked neutrino-driven wind in core-collapse supernovae. Here we examine the importance of the neutron capture rates of specific, individual nuclei in the second r-process abundance peak occurring at A $\sim $ 130 for a range of parameterized neutrino-driven wind trajectories. Of specific interest are the nuclei whose capture rates affect the abundances of nuclei outside of the A $\sim$ 130 peak. We found that increasing the neutron capture rate for a number of nuclei including $^{135}$In, $^{132}$Sn, $^{133}$Sb, $^{137}$Sb, and $^{136}$Te can produce changes in the resulting abundance pattern of up to 13{\%}.