Measurement of the plasma astrophysical S factor for the 3He(D, p)4He reaction in exploding molecular clusters
Nuclear Experiment
2015-06-16 v1 Plasma Physics
Abstract
The plasma astrophysical S factor for the 3He(D, p)4He fusion reaction was measured for the first time at temperatures of few keV, using the interaction of intense ultrafast laser pulses with molecular deuterium clusters mixed with 3He atoms. Different proportions of D2 and 3He or CD4 and 3He were mixed in the gas jet target in order to allow the measurement of the cross-section for the 3He(D, p)4He reaction. The yield of 14.7 MeV protons from the 3He(D, p)4He reaction was measured in order to extract the astrophysical S factor at low energies. Our result is in agreement with other S factor parameterizations found in the literature.
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@article{arxiv.1307.0432,
title = {Measurement of the plasma astrophysical S factor for the 3He(D, p)4He reaction in exploding molecular clusters},
author = {M. Barbui and W. Bang and A. Bonasera and K. Hagel and K. Schmidt and J. B. Natowitz and R. Burch and G. Giuliani and M. Barbarino and H. Zheng and G. Dyer and H. J. Quevedo and E. Gaul and A. C. Bernstein and M. Donovan and S. Kimura and M. Mazzocco and F. Consoli and R. De Angelis and P. Andreoli and T. Ditmire},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.0432},
year = {2015}
}