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Nuclear reactions in a cold dense magnetized material

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The probability of a pycnonuclear reaction in the synthesis of light elements depending on the mass density of the material and the magnetic field strength for a specified chemical composition of the medium is calculated. It is shown that magnetic fields with H≳1014 G considerably reduce the probability of pycnonuclear reactions for light elements. The threshold values of the density for which specified nuclei disappear from the composition of the magnetized material after a time of 107-109 years forming heavier nuclei as a result of pycnonuclear reactions are estimated. It is also shown that intense magnetic fields shift the threshold at which the light nuclei disappear towards higher densities.

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  1. A. S. Pushkin Brest Pedagogic Institute, USSR

    V. S. Sekerzhitskii & G. A. Shul'man

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  1. V. S. Sekerzhitskii
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 3, pp. 22–27, 1980.

The authors thank V. A. Malyshev for useful discussions.

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Sekerzhitskii, V.S., Shul'man, G.A. Nuclear reactions in a cold dense magnetized material. Soviet Physics Journal 23, 193–197 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00895074

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