Nuclear reactions inside the water molecule

Dicks, Jesse

dc.contributor.advisor	Rakityansky, S.A.	en
dc.contributor.author	Dicks, Jesse	en
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-25T10:45:18Z
dc.date.available	2009-08-25T10:45:18Z
dc.date.issued	2005-06
dc.date.submitted	2005-06-30	en
dc.identifier.citation	Dicks, Jesse (2005) Nuclear reactions inside the water molecule, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/625>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/625
dc.description.abstract	A scheme, analogous to the linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO), is used to calculate rates of reactions for the fusion of nuclei con¯ned in molecules. As an example, the possibility of nuclear fusion in rotationally excited H2O molecules of angular momentum 1¡ is estimated for the p + p + 16O ! 18Ne¤(4:522; 1¡) nuclear transition. Due to a practically exact agreement of the energy of the Ne resonance and of the p + p + 16O threshold, the possibility of an enhanced transition probability is investigated.	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (viii, 53 leaves)
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Enhanced transition probability	en
dc.subject	Resonance	en
dc.subject	Nuclear transition	en
dc.subject	18Ne Nucleus	en
dc.subject	H2O molecule	en
dc.subject	Nuclear fusion	en
dc.subject	LCAO	en
dc.subject	Reaction rate	en
dc.subject.ddc	539.76
dc.subject.lcsh	Nuclear reactions
dc.subject.lcsh	Resonance
dc.subject.lcsh	Nuclear fusion
dc.subject.lcsh	Atomic orbitals
dc.subject.lcsh	Atomic transition probabilities
dc.title	Nuclear reactions inside the water molecule	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.description.department	Physics	en
dc.description.degree	M.Sc.	en