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  • $\begingroup$ Have you had a chance to check this yet? My guess is that the difference is partly because pair production can easily become a runaway process, as described in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… whereas with photodisintegration some of the energy lost to photodisintegration is recovered in further fusion reactions. $\endgroup$
    – PM 2Ring
    Commented Jun 2, 2020 at 13:44