Fusion Reactions (plasmapy.formulary.fusion)

Cross sections and Maxwellian reactivities for nuclear fusion reactions.

Functions

available_cross_section_reactions()

Return the reaction keys accepted by fusion_cross_section.

available_reactivity_reactions()

Return the reaction keys accepted by fusion_reactivity.

fusion_cross_section(energy, reaction[, ...])

Calculate the fusion cross section \(σ(E)\) for a two reactant fusion reaction.

fusion_reactivity(ion_temp, reaction)

Calculate the Maxwellian-averaged fusion reactivity \(⟨σv⟩(T)\) for a two-body fusion reaction.

Example notebooks