The CNO Cycle
• Gives way around need for p n
during the collision
• Still must happen later – but don’t
need to rare events simultaneously
• Trade off is need for higher energy
collisions  (T>16 million K)
• Add p to some nucleus where new
one is still “stable”
• Wait for p n while that nucleus
just “sits around”
• The net effect is still   4  1H   4He
• C just acts like a “catalyst”