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Experimental investigation of dd reaction in range of ultralow energies using Z-pinch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2001

V.M. BYSTRITSKY
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
V.M. GREBENYUK
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
S.S. PARZHITSKI
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
F.M. PEN'KOV
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
V.T. SIDOROV
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
V.A. STOLUPIN
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
T.L. BULGAKOV
Affiliation:
Institute of Electrophysics, 620219 Ekaterinburg, Russia
G.A. MESYATS
Affiliation:
Institute of Electrophysics, 620219 Ekaterinburg, Russia
A.A. SINEBRYUKHOV
Affiliation:
Institute of Electrophysics, 620219 Ekaterinburg, Russia
V.A. SINEBRYUKHOV
Affiliation:
Institute of Electrophysics, 620219 Ekaterinburg, Russia
S.A. CHAIKOVSKY
Affiliation:
High-Current Electronics Institute, 634055 Tomsk, Russia
A.V. LUCHINSKY
Affiliation:
High-Current Electronics Institute, 634055 Tomsk, Russia
V.I. MAKHRIN
Affiliation:
High-Current Electronics Institute, 634055 Tomsk, Russia
N.A. RATAKHIN
Affiliation:
High-Current Electronics Institute, 634055 Tomsk, Russia
S.A. SOROKIN
Affiliation:
High-Current Electronics Institute, 634055 Tomsk, Russia
VIT.M. BYSTRITSKII
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4515, USA
M. FILIPOWICZ
Affiliation:
Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Techniques, Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
J. WOŹNIAK
Affiliation:
Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Techniques, Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
E. GUŁA
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland

Abstract

Experimental results on measurement of dd-reaction cross sections in the energy range of 0.1–1.5 keV using the Z-pinch technique are presented. The experiment was fulfilled at the high current generator of the High-Current Electronics Institute, city of Tomsk, Russia. The dd-fusion neutrons were registered by time-of-flight scintillator detectors and BF3 detectors of thermal neutrons. The estimates were obtained at 90% of the confidence level for the upper limits of the neutron-producing dd-reaction cross sections for average deuteron collision energies of 0.11, 0.34, 0.37, and 1.46 keV. These results substantiate feasibility to get a cross section magnitude for dd-reaction in the range of the collision energy of 0.8–3 keV using similar technology at the pulse current level of 2–3 MA.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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