The Gamow factor, Sommerfeld factor or Gamow–Sommerfeld factor, named after its discoverer George Gamow or after Arnold Sommerfeld, is a probability factor...
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George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Russian: Георгий Антонович Гамов; 4 March 1904 – 19 August 1968) was a Soviet and American...
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Stellar nucleosynthesis (redirect from Gamow peak)
the idea of stellar nucleosynthesis. In 1928 George Gamow derived what is now called the Gamow factor, a quantum-mechanical formula yielding the probability...
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compared to the variation from the Gamow factor and so is approximated by a function called the astrophysical S-factor, S ( ϵ ) {\displaystyle S(\epsilon...
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E_{0}=\left({\sqrt {E_{G}}}\,kT/2\right)^{2/3}} is the Gamow peak energy, dependent on EG, the Gamow factor. Additionally, S(E)/E is the reaction cross section...
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author of the FLRW metric of Universe George Gamow, discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and Gamow factor in stellar nucleosynthesis, introduced the...
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best-known applications is in the exponent of the Gamow factor P (also known as the penetrability factor), P = exp ( − 2 π η ) {\displaystyle P=\exp(-2\pi...
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George Gamow, author of One Two Three... Infinity and the Mr Tompkins series. The lectures were established by Gamow's widow, Barbara Perkins Gamow, and...
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suddenly expanded, and its volume increased by a factor of at least 1078 (an expansion of distance by a factor of at least 1026 in each of the three dimensions)...
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around Uranus George Gamow, theoretical physicist and cosmologist, discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and Gamow factor in stellar nucleosynthesis...
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