Ms
Aleksandra Cvetinović
(J. Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia)
For very low projectile energies, far below the Coulomb barrier, the nuclear reaction rate is very low and sensitive to electronic properties of target materials. In this case the projectile tunnels through a wide potential barrier. However, the electrons which are surrounding the reacting nuclei act as a screening potential, which leads to the incoming projectile seeing an effectively reduced...
