New concept for muon catalyzed fusion reactor
A new concept for a muon catalyzed pure fusion reactor is considered. To our best knowledge this constitutes a first plausible configuration to make energy gain without resorting to fissile matter breeding by fusion neutrons, although a number of crucial physical and engineering questions as well as details have yet to be resolved. A bundle of DT ice ribbons (with a filling factor f) is immersed in the magnetic field. The overall magnetic field in the mirror configuration confines pions created by the injected high energy deuterium (or tritium) beam. The DT materials is long enough to be inertially confined along the axis of mirror. The muon catalyzed mesomolecule formation and nuclear fusion take place in the DT target, leaving ..cap alpha../sup + +/ and occasionally (..cap alpha mu..)/sup +/ (muon sticking). The stuck muons are stripped fast enough in the target, while they are accelerated by ion cyclotron resonance heating when they circulate in the vaccum (or dilute plasma). The ribbon is (eventually) surrounded and pressure-confined by this coronal plasma, whereas the corona is magnetically confined. The overall bundle of ribbons (a pellet) is inertially confined. This configuration may also be of use for stripping stuck muons via the plasma mechanism of Menshikov and Ponomarev.
- Research Organization:
- Institute for Fusion Studies and Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
- OSTI ID:
- 6432957
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8805170-
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States), Journal Name: AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States) Vol. 181:1; ISSN APCPC
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS
CONFINEMENT
CYCLOTRON RESONANCE
D-T REACTORS
DESIGN
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FUEL PELLETS
ION CYCLOTRON-RESONANCE
LEPTON REACTIONS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MESIC MOLECULES
MOLECULES
MUON REACTIONS
MUON-CATALYZED FUSION
MUONIC MOLECULES
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
PELLETS
RESONANCE
STEADY-STATE D-T REACTORS
STEADY-STATE FUSION REACTORS
SYNTHESIS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS