John Newton

TL;DR: In this representation it is clearly seen that the excitation functions are not smooth and featureless; each is unique and is shown to depend on the details of the structure of the interacting nuclei.

TL;DR: In this paper, high precision complete and incomplete fusion cross sections have been measured for the $6}\mathrm{Li}+^{209}\mathm{Bi}, $7]-mathrm[Li+^{ 209]-mathm[Bi], and $9]-mathmm{Be}+''208]-Pb reactions, at energies near and below the Coulomb barrier.

TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental fusion barrier distribution extracted from these data allows reliable prediction of the expected complete fusion cross sections, but the measured cross sections are only 68% of those predicted, which supports the interpretation that this suppression of fusion is caused by incomplete fusion products breaking up into charged fragments before reaching the fusion barrier.

TL;DR: Fission fragment anisotropies and mass distributions have been measured to high accuracy, over a wide range of angles, for the full momentum transfer fission reaction as mentioned in this paper, where the bombarding energies spanned the fusion barrier distribution, in steps of 1 MeV.

TL;DR: 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 barrier passing model of fusion.