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Abstract

The available data on nuclear fusion cross sections important to energy generation in the Sun and other hydrogen-burning stars and to solar neutrino production are summarized and critically evaluated. Recommended values and uncertainties are provided for key cross sections, and a recommended spectrum is given for (8)B solar neutrinos. Opportunities for further increasing the precision of key rates are also discussed, including new facilities, new experimental techniques, and improvements in theory. This review, which summarizes the conclusions of a workshop held at the Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, in January 2009, is intended as a 10-year update and supplement to 1998, Rev. Mod. Phys. 70, 1265.

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• Goethe University Frankfurt DE
• University of Wisconsin–Madison US
• Argonne National Laboratory US
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory US
• Ruhr University Bochum DE
• Yale University US
• University of Catania IT
• National Taiwan University TW
• Old Dominion University US
• University of Naples Federico II IT
• Technical University of Munich DE
• Weizmann Institute of Science IL
• Colorado School of Mines US
• Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility US
• Astronomy and Space AU
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• Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
• Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf DE
• University of Genoa IT
• University of Pisa IT
• University of Washington US
• University of South Carolina US
• RIKEN JP
• Mitchell Institute US
• The University of Osaka JP
• Sungkyunkwan University KR
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem IL
• University of Notre Dame US

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