3 papers
physics.plasm-ph2024
Enhancement of fusion reactivities using non-Maxwellian energy distributions
Ben I. Squarer, Carlo Presilla, Roberto Onofrio
We discuss conditions for the enhancement of fusion reactivities arising from different choices of energy distribution functions for the reactants. The key element for potential ga…
quant-ph2024
State dependence of tunneling processes and thermonuclear fusion
Roberto Onofrio, Carlo Presilla
We discuss the sensitivity of tunneling processes to the initial preparation of the quantum state. We compare the case of Gaussian wave packets of different positional variances us…
hep-ph2024
Bounds to strong gravity from electron-positron annihilations near threshold
Nathaniel Alden, Roberto Onofrio
We discuss bounds to strong gravity arising from annihilation of electron and positrons and the corresponding enhancement of the cross section for the production of massive particl…