Time-of-flight measurement of resonant molecular formation in muon catalyzed dt fusion
- TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)
- INP, Krakow (Poland)
- Chester Technology (United Kingdom); and others
Preliminary results are reported for an experiment at TRIUMF where a time-of-flight technique was tested for measuring the energy dependence of the rate for muon catalyzed dt fusion. Muonic tritium toms were created following transfer of negative muons from muonic protium in a layer of solid hydrogen (protium) containing a small fraction of tritium. The atoms escaped from the solid layer via the Ramsauer-Townsend mechanism, traversed a drift region of 18 mm, and then struck an adjacent layer of deuterium, where the muonic atom could form a molecular system. The time of detection of a fusion product (neutron or alpha) following muon arrival is dependent upon the energy of the muonic tritium atom as it traverses the drift region. By comparison of the time distribution of fusion events with a prediction based on the theoretical energy dependence of the rate, the strength of resonant formation can in principle be determined. The results extracted so far are discussed and the limitations of the method are examined.
- Research Organization:
- British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC (Canada). TRIUMF Facility
- Sponsoring Organization:
- British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC (Canada). TRIUMF Facility; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON (Canada); Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern (Switzerland); North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels (Belgium)
- OSTI ID:
- 286274
- Report Number(s):
- TRI-PP--95-89; CONF-950681--3; ON: DE96013384; CNN: Grant LG 930162
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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