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Title:
Cold nuclear fusion
Authors:
Rafelski, Johann; Jones, Steven E.
Affiliation:
AA(European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland), AB(Brigham Young University, Provo, UT)
Publication:
Scientific American (ISSN 0036-8733), vol. 257, July 1987, p. 84-89.
Publication Date:
07/1987
Category:
Nuclear and High-Energy Physics
Origin:
STI
NASA/STI Keywords:
FUSION REACTORS, HYDROGEN ATOMS, MUONS, NUCLEAR FUSION, COMMERCIAL ENERGY, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, ENERGY SOURCES
Bibliographic Code:
1987SciAm.257...84R

Abstract

The possibility that negative muons could catalyze nuclear fusion was suggested on theoretical grounds by F.C. Frank and A.D. Sakharov in the late 1940s; the first experimental observations of the process followed serendipitously a decade later, in experiments at Berkeley by L.W. Alvarez. The fastest mechanism for muon-catalyzed, or 'cold' fusion, was suggested by Vesman (1967); it depends on a resonance effect that requires precise tuning, and in which the temperature of the gas has a great effect on the rate at which 'muomolecular' ions are formed. Attention is presently given to the configuration of a possible, commercial cold-fusion reactor that could be built with existing technology.
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