Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Ab initio predictions for polarized deuterium-tritium thermonuclear fusion

  • Guillaume Hupin,
  • Sofia Quaglioni,
  • Petr Navrátil

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08052-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Thermonuclear fusion of nuclei of deuterium and tritium may provide the energy for the future and spin polarization is a potential mechanism for enhancing the nuclear reaction. Here the authors predict the enhanced DT fusion rate using chiral effective field theory and ab initio calculations.