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This talk is a digest of Ref.[1](E.Gotsman,E. Levin and U. Maor: TAUP 2416/97, hep-ph/9705205,Phys. Lett. (in press)) where a new mechanism for hard inclusive production, which leads to a violation of the factorization theorem (FT), is…
In a recent work by the author it was demonstrated that the "neutrino" that is currently being detected in solar reactions (and possibly in other high energy nuclear reactions) is not Pauli's particle; as it became clear that such a…
We introduce and study the new notion of an {\em exact factorization} $\mathcal{B}=\mathcal{A}\bullet \mathcal{C}$ of a fusion category $\mathcal{B}$ into a product of two fusion subcategories $\mathcal{A},\mathcal{C}\subseteq \mathcal{B}$…
An "ab initio" calculation of the Carbon-12 elastic form factor, and sum rules of longitudinal and transverse response functions measured in inclusive (e,e') scattering, is reported, based on realistic nuclear potentials and electromagnetic…
A question that comes up repeatedly is how to combine the results of two experiments if all that is known is that one experiment had a n-sigma effect and another experiment had a m-sigma effect. This question is not well-posed: depending on…
In this comment, through our independent calculations, we assess that the recently reported results of El-Maaref et al. [{\em Indian J. Phys.} {\bf 91} 1029 (2017)] for energy levels, oscillator strengths, radiative rates, and lifetimes are…
This paper is an update to our earlier paper ''Progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criterion'' [Phys. Plasmas 29, 062103 (2022)]. Plots of Lawson parameter and triple product vs. ion temperature…
We compute the $S$-factor of the proton-proton ($pp$) fusion reaction using chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and perform a rigorous uncertainty analysis of the results. We quantify the…
We show that solar neutrino experiments set an upper limit of 7.8% (7.3% including the recent KamLAND measurements) to the fraction of energy that the Sun produces via the CNO fusion cycle, which is an order of magnitude improvement upon…
The $^{12}$C($\alpha,\gamma$)$^{16}$O reaction, an important component of stellar helium burning, plays a key role in nuclear astrophysics. It has direct impact on the evolution and final state of massive stars, while also influencing the…
The cross sections for the deep sub-barrier fusion reaction of light nuclei are calculated within the theoretical framework of the selective resonant tunneling model. In this model, assumption of a complex square-well nuclear potential is…
We discuss the influence of the 12C(alpha,gamma)16O$ reaction rate on the central He burning of stars in the mass range 0.8-25 Msun, as well as its effects on the explosive yields of a 25 Msun star of solar chemical composition. We find…
We showed that the equations (3), (4), (5) and (6), used in the paper Total and fractional densities of states from caloric relations by S. F. Chekmarev and S. V. Krivov, Phys. Rev. E 57 2445 (1998), are incorrect, the data, presented in…
Amato et al.[arXiv:1205.6418] maintain that certain data published in Carpinteri et al.[2] are not the result of independent measurements, and are in any case affected by uncertainties such that our conclusions are not valid. We will…
Here we reply critically to the comments by Giunti (arXiv:0801.4639 [nucl-th]) and justify our explanation of the experimentally observed periodic interference term in the rate of the K-shell electron capture decay of the H-like ions…
Exchange of unparticle stuff of dimension $d_\U$ with FCNC interaction can induce $M^{12,u}$ and $\Gamma^{12,u}$ causing meson and anti-meson mixing with the relation $\Gamma^{12,u}/M^{12,u} = 2 \tan(\pi d_\U)$. We show that this type of…
Measurement of the fusion cross-section for neutron-rich light nuclei is crucial in ascertaining if fusion of these nuclei occurs in the outer crust of a neutron star. We have therefore measured the fusion excitation function at…
The astrophysical $S$-factor for the proton-proton fusion is calculated in the low-energy regime for a variety of nuclear interactions and consistent nuclear currents, derived within chiral effective field theory. We estimate, for the first…
We study the cluster structure of $^{12}$C and $^{13}$C in the framework of the cluster shell model. Simple relations are derived for ratios of longitudinal form factors as well as transition probabilities. It is shown that the available…
This paper is concerned with the sequential covariance intersection (CI) fusion problem that the fusion result is independent of fusion structure including the fusion order and the number of estimates fused in each sequential fusion. An…