Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 165, 2017
Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VIII (NPA8 2017)
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Article Number | 02002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Special Session: Celebrating Claudio Spitaleri | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716502002 | |
Published online | 30 December 2017 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716502002
Nuclear clustering and the electron screening puzzle
1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, Texas 75429, USA
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
3 INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy
* e-mail: carlos.bertulani@tamuc.edu
** e-mail: spitaleri@lns.infn.it
Published online: 30 December 2017
Electron screening changes appreciably the magnitude of astrophysical nuclear reactions within stars. This effect is also observed in laboratory experiments on Earth, where atomic electrons are present in the nuclear targets. Theoretical models were developed over the past 30 years and experimental measurements have been carried out to study electron screening in thermonuclear reactions. None of the theoretical models were able to explain the high values of the experimentally determined screening potentials. We explore the possibility that the “electron screening puzzle” is due to nuclear clusterization and polarization e_ects in the fusion reactions. We will discuss the supporting arguments for this scenario.
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