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Neutron yield when fast deuterium ions collide with strongly charged tritium-saturated dust particles

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The ultrahigh charging of dust particles in a plasma under exposure to an electron beam with an energy up to 25 keV and the formation of a flux of fast ions coming from the plasma and accelerating in the strong field of negatively charged particles are considered. Particles containing tritium or deuterium atoms are considered as targets. The calculated rates of thermonuclear fusion reactions in strongly charged particles under exposure to accelerated plasma ions are presented. The neutron generation rate in reactions with accelerated deuterium and tritium ions has been calculated for these targets. The neutron yield has been calculated when varying the plasma-forming gas pressure, the plasma density, the target diameter, and the beam electron current density. Deuterium and tritium-containing particles are shown to be the most promising plasmaforming gas–target material pair for the creation of a compact gas-discharge neutron source based on the ultrahigh charging of dust particles by beam electrons with an energy up to 25 keV.

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  1. Troitsk Institute for Innovation and Thermonuclear Research, State Research Center of Russian Federation, Troisk, Moscow oblast, 108840, Russia

    Yu. S. Akishev, V. B. Karal’nik, A. V. Petryakov, A. N. Starostin, N. I. Trushkin & A. V. Filippov

  2. MEPhI National Research Nuclear University, Kashirskoe sh. 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia

    Yu. S. Akishev

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Original Russian Text © Yu.S. Akishev, V.B. Karal’nik, A.V. Petryakov, A.N. Starostin, N.I. Trushkin, A.V. Filippov, 2017, published in Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2017, Vol. 151, No. 2, pp. 270–284.

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Akishev, Y.S., Karal’nik, V.B., Petryakov, A.V. et al. Neutron yield when fast deuterium ions collide with strongly charged tritium-saturated dust particles. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 124, 231–243 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776117010101

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