▪ 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 …

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 …

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 …

The significance of the interpretation of heavy-ion fusion cross sections in terms of a
distribution of potential barriers is discussed. The smoothing due to the quantal barrier …

Triple-differential cross sections have been measured as a function of product mass, total
kinetic energy, and center-of-mass scattering angle in reactions induced by U 238 on O 16 …

In the past 85 years the number of known nuclides increased by more than a factor of ten,
resulting in 4000 presently known isotopes of 118 elements. This considerable progress we …

Fission fragment anisotropies and mass distributions have been measured to high accuracy,
over a wide range of angles, for the O 16+ U 238 reaction. The bombarding energies …

To systematically describe evaporation spectra for light and heavy compound nuclei over a
large range of excitation energies, it was necessary to consider three ingredients in the …

Some aspects of heavy-ion reactions close to the Coulomb barrier are reviewed in
experiment and theory. Fusion, complex reactions and quasi-elastic reactions are covered …

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 …