Prof. Claus Rolfs (Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany), Fusion reactions in stars

Tuesday 25 Jul 2006, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Bucharest

Fusion reactions play a key role in stars for the understanding of their energy production, evolution and neutrino emission. The experimental approaches in the study of some key reactions are presented. An important aspect are hereby the effects of electron screening, which increase the fusion cross sections. The fusion reaction d(d,p)t was recently studied in deuterated metals and insulators, i.e. for 58 samples across the periodic table, where a dramatic increase was observed for the metals. An explanation of the data is presented and possible future applications are discussed.