In this Report we give a balanced account of the experimental and theoretical advances
acquired over the last decade in the field of near-barrier fusion reactions induced by weakly …

In this review the main advances in heavy-ion fusion research that have taken place over the
last decade are addressed. During this period, experimental studies have been extended to …

Low-energy heavy-ion fusion reactions are governed by quantum tunneling through the
Coulomb barrier formed by the strong cancellation of the repulsive Coulomb force with the …

Microscopic methods and tools to describe nuclear dynamics have considerably been
improved in the past few years. They are based on the time-dependent Hartree–Fock …

The study of fusion reactions at extreme sub-barrier energies has seen an increased interest
in recent years, although difficult to measure due to their very small cross sections. Such …

Atomic nuclei are composite systems, and they may be dynamically excited during nuclear
reactions. Such excitations are not only relevant to inelastic scattering but they also affect …

Carbon burning is a critical phase for nucleosynthesis in massive stars. The conditions for
igniting this burning stage, and the subsequent isotope composition of the resulting ashes …

New measurements of fusion cross sections at deep sub-barrier energies for the reactions O
16+ Pb 204, 208 show a steep but almost saturated logarithmic slope, unlike Ni 64-induced …

We extend a recent study that explained the steep falloff in the fusion cross section at
energies far below the Coulomb barrier for the symmetric dinuclear system Ni 64+ Ni 64 to …

The nucleus-nucleus interaction potentials in heavy-ion fusion reactions are extracted from
the microscopic time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory for the mass symmetric reactions 16 …