Dasgupta, MahanandaMorton, ClydeBerriman, AnnetteButt, Rachel DNewton, JohnHinde, David2015-12-132015-12-130375-9474http://hdl.handle.net/1885/93450The study of nuclear fusion has been greatly enhanced following the realisation that an experimental fusion barrier distribution can be determined from precisely measured fusion cross-sections. Experimental fusion barrier distributions for different reactions have shown clear signatures of a range of nuclear structure effects, for example those of static quadrupole and hexadecapole deformations, and of coupling to single- and double-phonon states. Applications of this improved quantitative understanding of fusion in the fields of fission, and fusion of weakly bound nuclei are discussed.19992015-12-12