Muon-Catalyzed Fusion and Fusion with Polarized Nuclei

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Opening Addresses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages xiii-xiii

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   2. Ways Toward Fusion

      • D. Palumbo

      Pages 1-5

3. μ-Catalyzed Fusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Muon-Catalyzed Fusion: A Short Introduction and a Few Comments

      • G. Fiorentini

      Pages 9-17

   3. Muon-Catalyzed Nuclear Fusion for Energy Production

      • S. Eliezer

      Pages 19-53

   4. Theory of Cross-Section for Formation of Meso-Molecules

      • A. M. Lane

      Pages 55-66

   5. Decay Modes of Meso-Molecules

      • A. M. Lane

      Pages 67-72

   6. Can 250+ Fusions Per Muon be Achieved?

      • S. E. Jones

      Pages 73-88

   7. The Development of μCF Studies at SIN

      • W. H. Breunlich

      Pages 89-97

   8. Sticking in Muon-Catalyzed D-T Fusion

      • C. Petitjean

      Pages 99-115

   9. Present Activity on Muon-Catalyzed Fusion at KEK and Future Development

      • K. Nagamine

      Pages 117-131

   10. Muon-Catalyzed X-ray Laser and Neutron Pulses

       • S. Eliezer

       Pages 133-139

   11. Accelerators for μ-Production

       • M. Weiss

       Pages 141-150

   12. On the Production of Pions and Muons for the Purposes of Muon-Catalyzed Fusion

       • A. Bertin, M. Capponi, S. De Castro, I. Massa, M. Piccinini, M. Poli et al.

       Pages 151-158

4. Fusion with Polarized Nuclei

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Polarized Advanced Fuel Reactors

      • R. M. Kulsrud

      Pages 161-168

   3. Application of Polarized Nuclei to Fusion

      • R. M. Kulsrud

      Pages 169-178

   4. Depolarization of Spin Polarized Plasmas by Collective Modes

      • F. Pegoraro

      Pages 179-194

   5. Uncollided Neutron Fluences in a Mirror-Like Machine (MFTF-B) with Polarized DT Plasmas

      • C. Di Nicola, E. Pedretti

      Pages 195-206

The International School of Fusion Reactor Technology started its courses 15 years ago and since then has mantained a biennial pace. Generally, each course has developed the subject which was announced in advance at the closing of the previous course. The subject to which the present proceedings refer was chosen in violation of that rule so as to satisfy the recent and diffuse interest in cold fusion among the main European laboratories involved in controlled thermonuclear research (CTR). In the second half of 1986 we started to prepare a workshop aimed at assessing the state of the art and possibly of the perspectives of muon- catalyzed fusion. Research in this field has recently produced exciting experimental results open to important practical applications. We thought it worthwhile to consider also the beneficial effects and problems of the polarization ofthe nuclei in both cold and thermonuclear fusion. In preparing the 8th Course on Fusion Reactor Technology, it was necessary to abandon the traditional course format because the influence of the workshop procedure was inevitable: the participants were roughly equally divided into experts in cold fusion and experts in thermonuclear fusion. The course had largely an interdisciplinary character as many disciplines were involved: atomic and molecular physics, nuclear physics, accelerator technology, system analysis, etc. Plasma physics was excluded, with a sigh of relief from the experts in thermonuclear fusion.

• X-ray
• energy
• laser
• molecule
• neutron
• nuclear physics
• physics
• plasma
• spin
• tokamak

• National Commission for Nuclear and Alternative Energies, ENEA CRE, Frascati, Italy

  B. Brunelli

• Directorate General XII—Fusion Programme, Commission for the European Communities, Brussels, Belgium

  G. G. Leotta

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