APPLIED PHYSICS

THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL JOURNAL


No. 6 Founded in 1994 Moscow 2003


Cluster thermonuclear fusion (critical publications analysis)

V. Yu. Velikodny
Applied Mechanics Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia

V. A. Bitiyrin
High temperatures institute RAS, Moscow, Russia

   In some experiments on the research of interaction of charged clusters of heavy water, accelerated up to the energy of 300 keV with a wall made of deuterated materials, it was found an abnormally high yield of 2D+2D reaction products as the size of clusters was increased. For a long time there haven’t been a satisfactory and not contradicting explanation for this phenomenon. Recently the authors of this work showed that abnormally high yield of 2D+2D reaction products is caused by non-equilibrium effects, appearing in the collective interaction of 2D with heavy atoms — O, Ti, Zr according to Fermi mechanism. Based on the analysis of experimental data and theoretical results, new methods of light nuclei synthesis processes realization at velocity close to maximal with relatively low average energies per one nucleon in cluster ~0.005—0.8 keV have been proposed. These methods can be realized without application of new technologies (on standard, industrial equipment). Characteristic features of the proposed devices are their small dimensions and relatively low initial energy.

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