Colorado School of Mines low energy nuclear physics project. Final technical progress report

This report summarizes the accomplishments of the project ``Studies of nuclear reactions at very low energies``. This project was undertaken in 1987 and completed in 1993. All but one of the major objectives of this study have been accomplished. Specifically the authors have completed their investigation of the (p,{gamma}) on light nuclei, a study of the Oppenheimer-Phillips effect, a measurements of the astrophysically interesting reaction D({alpha},{gamma}){sup 6}Li at low energies and an extension of the reaction D(d,{gamma}){sup 4}He to lower energies than previously observed. Preliminary investigation of te reaction {sup 7}Li({sup 3}He,p){sup 9}Be was begun and is continuing under a separate DOE grant. In addition to these tasks, they have completed some very interesting projects which were not included in the original proposal. These include a study of the (d,{gamma}) reactions on {sup 6}Li, {sup 7}Li and {sup 10}B and an investigation of the possibility of observing terrestrial antineutrinos from the beta decay chains of U and Th as a diagnostic of terrestrial heat flow.