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Reactivation of αμ in muon-catalyzed fusion under plasma conditions

1989; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 40; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreva.40.2799

0556-2791

Magnus Jändel, Piotr Froelich, Guy C. Larson, C. D. Stodden,

Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions

The reactivation efficiency of \ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\mu} slowing down in a deuterium-tritium plasma has been calculated for a broad range of plasma conditions. The plasma stopping power has been obtained from the random-phase approximation, which includes both the quantum mechanics of short-range collisions and collective effects due to long-range plasma interactions. It is shown that muon reactivation increases with increasing plasma temperature and density. Near-complete reactivation is, however, reached only at temperatures higher than 1000 eV.