Published August 1, 1990
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Estimates of cluster-impact fusion yields
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- Carraro, C.
- Chen, B. Q.
- Schramm, S.
- Koonin, S. E.
Abstract
We present several theoretical estimates of D+D fusion rates for heavy-water molecular clusters impacting on TiD targets. Our considerations range from the simple thick-target yield to single- and multiple-deuteron knock-on to thermonuclear and thermal-spike models; detailed molecular-dynamics simulations are also presented. Each of our models fails, by many orders of magnitude, to reproduce the yields observed in recent experiments. We consider the extent to which experimental artifacts might contribute to the results claimed.
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©1990 The American Physical Society. Received 15 January 1990. This work has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant Nos. PHY86-04197 and PHY88-17296. We are grateful to the authors of Ref. 1 for their frank discussions and for conversations with C.A. Barnes and T.A. Tombrello. We acknowledge a time allocation on the JPL/Caltech Cray X-MP/18.Files
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