A 14-MeV High-Flux Neutron Source Based on Muon-Catalyzed Fusion — a Design Study

Petitjean, C.; Atchison, F.; Heidenreich, G.; Walter, H. K.; Amelotti, F.; Andreani, Roberto; Marco, F. De; Monti, Stefano; Pillon, M.; Vecchi, M.; Markushin, V. E.; Ponomarev, L. I.; Niebuhr, C.

doi:10.13182/fst94-a30251

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“…From then on, muon-catalyzed fusion (µ CF) has been intensively studied because of the rich variety of physical phenomena involved and the hope of economical energy production [2]. Excitingly, there has been some significant progress in both experimental and theoretical studies [3][4][5][6][7]. However, µ CF is too far from the aim to attain energy plus and one of several important reasons is muon-loss resulting from the capture of the catalyzing muon by the α particle produced in the fusion reaction.…”

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Muon Motion Induced by a Superintense Laser in Muon‐Catalyzed Fusion

Wu¹,

Shi

et al. 2008

Contrib. Plasma Phys.

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Considering the mixture after muon-catalyzed fusion (µ CF) reaction as overdense plasma, we study muon motion in the plasma produced by a superintense linearly polarized femtosecond laser pulse. Muon drift along the propagation of laser radiation remains after the end of the laser pulse. At the peak laser intensity of 10 21 W/cm 2 , muon goes from the skin layer into field-free matter at short time which is much less than the pulse duration, before the laser pulse reaches its maximum. Besides, the influence of the laser on other particles in the plasma is less. Hence, this work can avoid muon sticking to alpha (α) effectively and reduce muon-loss probability in µ CF.

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