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 …

▪ Abstract The experimental extraction of detailed barrier distributions has brought a
significant advance in the study of the fusion of heavy nuclei, and indeed in the entire heavy …

A FORTRAN 77 program that calculates fusion cross sections and mean angular momenta
of the compound nucleus under the influence of couplings between the relative motion and …

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 …

Recent theoretical advances in the study of heavy-ion fusion reactions below the Coulomb
barrier are reviewed. Particular emphasis is given to new ways of analyzing data (such as …

Fusion excitation functions for the reactions Sm 1 4 4, 1 4 8, 1 5 4 and W 186+ O 16 and Sm
144+ O 17 have been measured with high precision, both in the cross sections and the small …

Precise fusion and quasi-elastic scattering excitation functions have been measured for the
systems 40Ca+ 90, 96Zr at energies spanning the Coulomb barrier. From both the fusion …

Complete fusion excitation functions for 9 Be+ 208 Pb have been measured to high
precision at near barrier energies. The experimental fusion barrier distribution extracted from …

A large number of precision fusion excitation functions, at energies above the average
fusion barriers, have been fitted using the Woods-Saxon form for the nuclear potential in a …

Analyses using simplified coupled-channels models have been unable to describe the
shape of the previously measured fusion barrier distribution for the doubly magic 16 O+ 208 …