Muon catalyzed fusion in deuterium at 3 K

Technical Report · Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/286273· OSTI ID:286273

Knowles, P E; Beer, G A ^[1]; Bailey, J M ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Victoria, British Columbia (Canada)
2. Chester Technology (United Kingdom); and others

Muon catalyzed fusion in deuterium has traditionally been studied in gaseous and liquid targets. The TRIUMF solid hydrogen layer target system has been used to study the fusion reaction rates in the solid phase at a target temperature of 3 K. Both branches of the cycle were observed; neutrons by a liquid organic scintillator, and protons by a silicon detector located inside the target system. The effective molecular formation rate from the upper hyperfine state and the spin exchange rate have been measured, and information on the branching ratio parameters has been extracted.

• Research Organization: British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC (Canada). TRIUMF Facility
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC (Canada). TRIUMF Facility; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON (Canada); Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern (Switzerland)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 286273
• Report Number(s): TRI-PP-95-92; CONF-950681-4; ON: DE96013383; TRN: 96:023321
• Resource Relation: Conference: International symposium on muon catalyzed fusion, Dubna (Russian Federation), 20-23 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1995
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
DEUTERIUM
MUON-CATALYZED FUSION
FUSION YIELD
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
NUCLEAR REACTION KINETICS
NEUTRON DETECTION
PROTON DETECTION
NUCLEAR MODELS
TEMPERATURE RANGE 0000-0013 K