Epithermal effects in muon catalyzed fusion in H/D/T mixtures at low deuterium and tritium concentrations

Abstract

The results of a Monte Carlo simulation of muon catalyzed fusion in H/D/T mixtures at low deuterium and tritium concentrations are presented, and the kinetics of the dt branch of the μCF cycle is discussed. It is shown that the epithermal effects in the dtμ cycle produce a multicomponent structure in the time spectra of dt fusion, in agreement with the recent experimental results obtained by the μCF collaboration at PSI. The importance of further studies of the μCF reactions in triple mixtures is emphasized.