Enhancement of thermonuclear reaction rate due to strong screening. II - Ionic mixtures

view Abstract Citations (141) References (13) Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS Enhancement of thermonuclear reaction rate due to strong screening. II - Ionic mixtures Itoh, N. ; Totsuji, H. ; Ichimaru, S. ; Dewitt, H. E. Abstract The calculation of the enhancement factor for the rate of thermonuclear reactions in the strong-screening regime is extended to the cases involving plasmas with two different ion species. The calculation is based on the recent results of Monte Carlo computations for such two-component plasmas. With appropriate definition and combination of the plasma parameters it is found that the screening potentials in two-component plasmas exhibit a linear dependence at intermediate distances, quite similar to that found for one-component plasmas. Application to the calculation of carbon ignition in the carbon-oxygen core of a highly evolved star is discussed. Publication: The Astrophysical Journal Pub Date: December 1979 DOI: 10.1086/157590 Bibcode: 1979ApJ...234.1079I Keywords: Nonuniform Plasmas; Reaction Kinetics; Thermonuclear Reactions; Astrophysics; Binary Mixtures; Dense Plasmas; Monte Carlo Method; Astrophysics full text sources ADS | Related Materials (2) Erratum: 1980ApJ...239..414I Erratum: 1980ApJ...239..415I