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title	tags	authors	affiliations	date
Fusionrate: fusion cross sections, rate coefficients, and their derivatives	Python fusion rate coefficients cross sections	name Jacob A. Schwartz orcid 0000-0001-9636-8181 affiliation 1	name Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory index 1	2023

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This allows fusion researchers to easily create plots of fusion rate coefficients and cross sections, and to integrate these functions into further codes, particularly codes that require Jacobian computations. While it's relatively simple to implement the standard Bosch fusion cross section formulas, they are not well-behaved when given inputs outside of their domain. This package also allows the calculation of fusion rate coefficients for non-Maxwellian distributions, in particular places where the parallel and perpendicular temperatures differ. These might be encountered in fusion devices such as mirror machines.

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