Search for nuclear fusion in deuterated targets under cluster-beam impact

Journal Article · Mon Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 1990 · Physical Review Letters; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.621· OSTI ID:6545112

Fallavier, M; Kemmler, J; Kirsch, R; Poizat, J C; Remillieux, J; Thomas, J P ^[1]

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1. Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon, (France) Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite Claude Bernard, 43, boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne CEDEX (France)

Stimulated by the recent report of Beuhler, Friedlander, and Friedman on the observation of {ital dd} fusion under the impact of heavy-water clusters on deuterated solid targets, we undertook a similar study with pure deuterium clusters (D{sub 200}{sup +}--D{sub 300}{sup +}) in the same range of incident energy per deuteron (less than 1 keV). We observed no fusion event and our upper limit for the fusion rate is more than 1 order of magnitude below the Brookhaven value. Additional measurements performed with {ital N}{sub {ital n}}{sup +} projectiles were not conclusive but showed that beam-contamination problems may be very serious.

• OSTI ID: 6545112
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (USA), Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; (USA) Vol. 65:5; ISSN PRLTA; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BEAMS
CHARGED PARTICLES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COLLISIONS
DATA
DEUTERATION
DEUTERIUM
DEUTERIUM COMPOUNDS
DEUTERONS
ENERGY RANGE
ENERGY SPECTRA
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
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ION BEAMS
ION COLLISIONS
ION PAIRS
IONS
ISOTOPES
KEV RANGE
KEV RANGE 10-100
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NITROGEN IONS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
NUMERICAL DATA
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
PROJECTILES
SPECTRA
STABLE ISOTOPES
SYNTHESIS
TARGETS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS
TITANIUM COMPOUNDS
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