Nuclear fusion in dense matter: Reaction rate and carbon burning
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L. R. Gasques,1 A. V. Afanasjev,1 E. F. Aguilera,2 M. Beard,1 L. C. Chamon,3 P. Ring,4 M. Wiescher,1 and D. G. Yakovlev5 1Department of Physics & The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 USA 2Departamento del Accelerador, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, A.P. 18-1027, C.P. 11801, Destrito Federal, Mexico 3Departamento de Fı́sica Nuclear, Instituto de Fı́sica da Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 66318, 05315-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 4Physik-Department, Technische Universitat München, D-85747, Garching, Germany 5Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Poliekhnicheskaya 26, RU-194021 St. Petersburg, Russia (Received 21 February 2005; published 29 August 2005)
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