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The kinetics of muon-catalyzed-fusion processes (μCF) in pure D2 gas have been studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations for various target temperatures and densities. In particular, the role of resonant and non-resonant ddμ formation in μCF has been investigated. It has been shown that non-resonant formation can be directly observed at very short times in the neutron time spectra from μCF for low-density D2 targets. The time spectra of neutrons from the low-temperature ortho-D2 and para-D2 gas targets have been calculated. These spectra display a strong ortho-para effect, which agrees with experimental results for the dilute-gas D2 targets.
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Adamczak, A., Faifman, M. Monte Carlo simulations of the μCF processes kinetics in deuterium gas. Eur. Phys. J. D 51, 341–345 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2008-00287-7
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