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 …

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 …

Carbon burning powers scenarios that influence the fate of stars, such as the late
evolutionary stages of massive stars (exceeding eight solar masses) and superbursts from …

The slow neutron capture process in massive stars (weak s process) produces most of the s-
process isotopes between iron and strontium. Neutrons are provided by the 22 Ne (α, n) 25 …

The fusion reactions C 12 (C 12, α) Ne 20 and C 12 (C 12, p) Na 23 have been studied from
E= 2.10 to 4.75 MeV by γ-ray spectroscopy using a C target with ultralow hydrogen …

Carbon and oxygen burning reactions, in particular, C 12+ C 12 fusion, are important for the
understanding and interpretation of the late phases of stellar evolution as well as the ignition …

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 …

The Trojan Horse Method (THM) represents an indirect path to determine the bare nucleus
astrophysical S-factor for reactions among charged particles at astrophysical energies. This …

The essential ingredients of nuclear astrophysics are the thermonuclear reactions which
shape the life and death of stars and which are responsible for the synthesis of the chemical …

We investigate the consequences of a new phenomenological model prediction of strongly
reduced low-energy astrophysical S-factors for carbon and oxygen fusion reactions on …