Bibhas R De and Leonard J Srnka 1978 Plasma Phys. 20 503 doi:10.1088/0032-1028/20/6/002
Bibhas R De and Leonard J Srnka
Show affiliationsConsideration of the nuclear electric quadrupole terms in the expression for the fusion coulomb barrier suggests that this electrostatic barrier may be substantially modified from that calculated under the usual plasma assumption that the nuclei are electric monopoles. This effect is a result of the nonspherical potential shape and the spatial quantisation of the nuclear spins of the fully stripped ions in the presence of a magnetic field. For monopole-quadrupole fuel cycles like p-11B, the fusion cross-section may be substantially increase at low energies if the protons are injected at a small angle relative to the confining magnetic field.
21.10.Ky Electromagnetic moments
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