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Line broadening for the proton energy spectrum from the deuterium-deuterium fusion reaction is used to extract the effective deuterium temperature in the recent clusterimpact fusion experiments. The two primary contributions to the proton line width are due to temperature and kinematic broadening. By deconvolving these contributions, we have determined a temperature ∼ 20 keV for the deuterium-deuterium fusion reaction. This is substantially hotter than conventional estimates. Our analysis shows that the proton spectrum is an additional diagnostic tool that can rule out high energy monoenergetic contaminants in explaining the unexpectedly high yield. Furthermore, the proton spectrum indicates that the high temperature results from a one-dimensional rather than a three-dimensional velocity distribution.
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Kim, Y.E., Rabinowitz, M., Yoon, JH., Rice, R.A. (1992). Hot Plasma Model for Cluster Impact Fusion. In: Miley, G.H., Hora, H. (eds) Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3324-5_47
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