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- From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: A stupid question about reaction cross-section, etc.
- Message-ID: <6879@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 21:41:09 GMT
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- The discussions on this group have long gone past the point where my
- physics education went, so this is probably a stupid question, but
- here goes anyway: I keep hearing about the reaction cross-section; is
- this a number that rolls out of theory or is this an experimental
- result?
-
- The reason I ask is the following: if it is experimental, would it be
- possible that the real chance of two deuterons fusing is actually a
- lot bigger than we think, only that usually the end result of the
- reaction is again two deuterons? (So, in stead of 50% chance of the
- tritium path, 50% chance of the He3 path and a tiny chance of the He4
- path we actually have 50% DD path, 25% T, 25% He3 and tiny% He4 or
- something similar). In such a regime (where there would be many more
- opportunities for fusion than we currently think) it would be a lot
- easier for the gammas or alphas to change the behaviour of the whole
- system, since there would be many more opportunities for them to have
- a significant influence...
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