Dynamic Screening in Thermonuclear Reactions

It has recently been argued that there are no dynamic screening corrections to Salpeter’s enhancement factor in thermonuclear reactions, in the weak-screening limit. The arguments used were: 1) The Gibbs probability distribution is factorable into two parts, one of which, $exp(-\beta \sum e_{i}e_{j}/r_{ij})$($\beta=1/k_{B}T$), is independent of velocity space; and 2) The enhancement factor is $w=1+{\beta }^2{e}^2{Z}_1{Z}_2<{\varphi }^2>$ with ${<{\varphi }^2>}_k={<E^2>}_k\mathrm{/}{k}^2$ and ${< E^{2}

}_{k}/(8\pi)=(T/2)[1-\epsilon^{-1} (0,k)]$. We show that both of these arguments are incorrect.