The Collective Term For the Nuclear Reactions Evolution

Exploring the Mechanisms of Nuclear Fusion

Abstract

Nuclearfusion rates are extremely sensitive to temperature. In order to understand whythis is so, we need to examine how a fusion process operates: since thepositively charged nuclei which need to fuse have to face a strong coulombbarrier (see fig. 1), the fusion process operates mainly by tunnelling. In thecentre of mass frame, if the kinetic energy of the approaching particles is E,then the tunnelling probability.