# title
Fundamental interactions, nuclear masses, astrophysics, and QCD

# abstract
During his long and varied career, Robert Tribble has made important contributions in many areas of nuclear physics. He has set new limits on the existence of second-class currents, lepton-flavor violation, and right-handed interactions. He optimized the use of the (4He,8He) reaction to determine nuclear masses and study charge-dependent effects in nuclei. He has developed a new indirect procedure to determine astrophysical reaction rates and applied it to study important nuclear reactions that occur in our sun, in massive stars, and in novae. He has explored anti-quark distributions in nucleons and nuclei, and the polarization of gluons in the nucleon. A brief overview of Bob Tribble's many accomplishments is presented.  2008 American Institute of Physics.

# publicationOutlet
EXOTIC NUCLEI AND NUCLEAR /PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS (II)

# nameOfConference
EXOTIC NUCLEI AND NUCLEAR/PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS (II): Proceedings of the Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2007