An optimized hydrogen target for muon catalyzed fusion, By Rouhollah (Kouroush) Gheisari

Research

Title	An optimized hydrogen target for muon catalyzed fusion
Type	Article
Keywords	Hydrogen structure, Muon cycling, Degrader, Time evolution, Separate events
Journal	NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
DOI	10.1016/j.nima.2010.12.177
Researchers	Rouhollah (Kouroush) Gheisari (First researcher)

Abstract

This paperdealswiththeoptimizationoftheprocessesinvolvedinmuoncatalyzedfusion.Muon catalyzedfusion(muCF) isstudiedinalllayersofthesolidhydrogenstructure H/1%T + D2 +HD. The layer H/T acts asanemittersourceofenergetic tm atoms,duetotheso-calledRamsauer–Townsend effect.These tm atomsaresloweddowninthesecondlayer(degrader)andareforcedtotakeplace nuclearfusionin HD. Thedegraderaffectstimeevolutionof tm atomic beam.Thiseffecthasnotbeen considereduntilnowin muCF-multilayeredtargets.Duetomuoncyclingandthiseffect,considerable reactionsoccurinthedegrader.Inourcalculations,itisshownthatthefusionyieldequals180+/-1.5. It ispossibletoseparateeventsthatoverlapintime.