Nuclear Spin-Polarized Fuel in Inertial Fusion

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This Letter examines the possibility of using spin-polarized DT fuel for inertial-confinement fusion. Analytic models and estimates are developed to determine whether an initial spin-polarized state would survive target irradiation and implosion. It is found that collisional depolarization cross sections are not large enough to give significant depolarization, and that the short duration of inertial-fusion implosions precludes spin resonance for magnetic fields that can be reasonably expected in the target fuel.

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