ESTIMATES FOR CLUSTER-IMPACT FUSION YIELDS USING THE FERMI ACCELERATION MAP

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作者
BURGDORFER, J [1 ]
WANG, J [1 ]
RITCHIE, RH [1 ]
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[1] OAK RIDGE NATL LAB,OAK RIDGE,TN 37831
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PHYSICA SCRIPTA | 1991年 / 44卷 / 04期
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10.1088/0031-8949/44/4/016
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We study the acceleration of deuterons bouncing forth and back between Ti atoms of the solid target and the heavy-water cluster projectiles impinging on a deuterated TiD surface. The multiple scattering sequence restricted to near head-on collisions closely resembles the Fermi acceleration map. Summation over all iterates of the map provides an estimate (possibly an upper limit) for the collisionally generated preequilibrium high-energy tail of the D distribution. Implications for the recent experimental study on cluster-impact fusion by Beuhler et al. are discussed.
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