The Salpeter plasma correction for solar fusion reactions
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Plasma Physics
Abstract
We review five different derivations that demonstrate that the Salpeter formula for the plasma corrections to fusion rates is valid at the center of the sun with insignificant errors (~ percent). We point out errors in several recent papers that have obtained a variety of answers, some even with the wrong sign or the wrong functional dependence.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0010055,
title = {The Salpeter plasma correction for solar fusion reactions},
author = {John N. Bahcall and Lowell Brown and Andrei Gruzinov and R. F. Sawyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0010055},
year = {2009}
}
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