Muon catalysis for energy production by nuclear fusion

Petrov, Yu. V.

doi:10.1038/285466a0

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“…Jackson (1957) claimed that it was impossible to achieve an energy gain from pure muon-catalyzed fusion. Petrov's (1980) concept of a fusion-fission reactor was improved by Eliezer, Tajima and Rosenbluth (1987). However, as Petrov suggested muon catalyzed dt fusion can be used in a hybrid fusion-fission reactor.…”

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μ-Molecular formation under laser irradiation

Eliezer

Henis

1989

Laser Part. Beams

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μ-Molecular formation under laser irradiation

Eliezer

Henis

1989

Laser Part. Beams

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“…In 1987, Eliezer et al [11] proposed a muon catalyzed fusion-fission device. Studies on µCF in relatively large magnetic devices [41] and detailed investigation on µCF process [42] including fusion devices with magnetic trapping conditions [42,43] enable to propose schemes for energy production plants [42][43][44] . An analytical description can be seen in many works [42,[45][46][47] .…”

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New scheme to trigger fusion in a compact magnetic fusion device by combining muon catalysis and alpha heating effects

Moustaizis

Lalousis

Hora

et al. 2016

High Pow Laser Sci Eng

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The application of laser pulses with psec or shorter duration enables nonthermal efficient ultrahigh acceleration of plasma blocks with homogeneous high ion energies exceeding ion current densities of 10 12 A cm −2 . The effects of ultrahigh acceleration of plasma blocks with high energy proton beams are proposed for muon production in a compact magnetic fusion device. The proposed new scheme consists of an ignition fusion spark by muon catalyzed fusion (µCF) in a small mirror-like configuration where low temperature D-T plasma is trapped for a duration of 1 µs. This initial fusion spark produces sufficient alpha heating in order to initiate the fusion process in the main device. The use of a multi-fluid global particle and energy balance code allows us to follow the temporal evolution of the reaction rate of the fusion process in the device. Recent progress on the ICAN and IZEST projects for high efficient high power and high repetition rate laser systems allows development of the proposed device for clean energy production. With the proposed approaches, experiments on fusion nuclear reactions and µCF process can be performed in magnetized plasmas in existing kJ/PW laser facilities as the GEKKO-LFEX, the PETAL and the ORION or in the near future laser facilities as the ELI-NP Romanian pillar.Keywords: alpha heating effect; high energy density physics; laser plasmas interaction; laser proton acceleration high energy density physics; muon catalyzed fusion; ultra-intense; ultra-short pulse laser interaction with matters

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“…[4] Up to now, one muon costing the energy of 8 GeV can catalyse more than 100 fusions before it leaves the fusion cycle because of its decay [5] or capture by Helium, [6,7] and then release the energy of 2 GeV and neutrons. [8] However, it means that the spent energy still cannot be paid off with the released energy. So Petrov [8] suggested the hybrid muon-catalysis, in which the produced neutrons of initial energy of 14.1 MeV from the muon catalysis reaction can be used in obtaining fission energy and nuclear breeding in the following fission reactions, then extra energy can be obtained.…”

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“…[8] However, it means that the spent energy still cannot be paid off with the released energy. So Petrov [8] suggested the hybrid muon-catalysis, in which the produced neutrons of initial energy of 14.1 MeV from the muon catalysis reaction can be used in obtaining fission energy and nuclear breeding in the following fission reactions, then extra energy can be obtained. For the same purpose, in this paper we will suggest the muon-driven fast ignition (FI).…”

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The propagation and deposition of fast muons in dense DT mixture

Shen

Zhang

et al. 2009

Chinese Phys. B

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The propagation of the fast muon population mainly due to collisional effect in a dense deuterium-tritium (DT for short) mixture is investigated and analysed within the framework of the relativistic Fokker-Planck equation. Without the approximation that the muons propagate straightly in the DT mixture, the muon penetration length, the straggling length, and the mean transverse dispersion radius are calculated for different initial energies, and especially for different densities of the densely compressed DT mixture in our suggested muon-driven fast ignition (FI). Unlike laser-driven FI requiring super-high temperature, muons can catalyze DT fusion at lower temperatures and may generate an ignition sparkle before the self-heating fusion follows. Our calculation is important for the feasibility and the experimental study of muon-driven FI.

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Muon catalysis for energy production by nuclear fusion

Cited by 98 publications

References 5 publications

μ-Molecular formation under laser irradiation

μ-Molecular formation under laser irradiation

New scheme to trigger fusion in a compact magnetic fusion device by combining muon catalysis and alpha heating effects

The propagation and deposition of fast muons in dense DT mixture

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