Resonant formation of dμt molecules in deuterium: An atomic beam measurement of muon catalyzed dt fusion

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1642-1645

  Fujiwara, M C ^a,b,q   Adamczak, A ^c   Bailey, J M ^d   Beer, G A ^e   Beveridge, J L ^b   Faifman, M P ^f   Huber, T M ^g   Kammel, P ^h   Kim, S K ⁱ   Knowles, P E ^e,o   Kunselman, A R ^j   Maier, M ^e   Markushin, V E ^k   Marshall, G M ^b   Martoff, C J ^l   Mason, G R ^e   Mulhauser, F ^b,o   Olin, A ^b,e   Petitjean, C ^k   Porcelli, T A ^e,p   Wozniak, J ^m   Zmeskal, J ⁿ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TRIUMF   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d Chester Technology   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^k PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^l Temple University   (United States)

^m AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

ⁿ ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^o UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^p UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^q UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BEAMS; CATALYSIS; DEUTERIUM; ELECTRON RESONANCE; MOLECULES; TRITIUM;

MUON CATALYZED FUSION; RESONANT FORMATIONS;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 0034247625     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1642     Document Type: Article

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