https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00075-2
Letter to the Editor
Status on
fusion at deep subbarrier energies: impact of resonances on astrophysical
factors
1
Département de Recherches Subatomiques, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, IN2P3-CNRS and Université de Strasbourg, 23, rue du Loess BP 28, 67037, Strasbourg Cedex 2, France
2
Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
3
Institute of Modern Physics, CAS, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China
4
Joint Department for Nuclear Physics, Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou University, CAS, Lanzhou, China
* e-mail: akram@comp.tamu.edu
Received:
13
September
2019
Accepted:
30
January
2020
Published online:
18
March
2020
Since the discovery of molecular resonances in in the early sixties a great deal of research work has been undertaken to study
-clustering and resonant effects of the fusion process at sub-Coulomb barrier energies. The modified astrophysical
factors of
fusion have been extracted from direct fusion measurements at deep sub-barrier energies near the Gamow window. They were also obtained by the indirect Trojan horse method (THM). A comparison of direct measurements and the THM, which elucidates problems in the analysis of the THM, is discussed in this Letter to the Editor.
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