São Paulo potential as a tool for calculating S factors of fusion reactions in dense stellar matter

L. R. Gasques,1,* A. V. Afanasjev,1,2 M. Beard,1 J. Lubian,3 T. Neff,4,† M. Wiescher,1 and D. G. Yakovlev5 1Department of Physics & The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Mississippi State University, P. O. Box 5167, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762, USA 3Instituto de Fı́sica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Av. Litorânea s/n, 24210-340 Niteroi, Riode Janeiro, Brazil 4NSCL, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 5Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Politekhnicheskaya 26, RU-194021 St. Petersburg, Russia (Received 3 January 2007; revised manuscript received 12 July 2007; published 24 October 2007)