Fusion cross sections and thermonuclear reaction rates

1 September 1979

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics

Vol. 50 (9), 5569-5571
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.326748

Abstract

Experimental data for five fusion reactions of D, T, and ³He below 1 MeV are reviewed. Analytical formulas are given for the reaction rates as functions of the temperature, up to kT=100 keV. These formulas depart appreciably from some currently used when kT<3 keV.

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