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Aidan Davis
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What requirements must a target of gaseous (at STP) meet to participate as the target in beam-target fusion, besides the obvious requirement that the target be a pure (research grade) sample of the desired target material? If a sufficiently fast (hundreds of KeV for the various hydrogen fusion combinations, according to the Gamow factor) beam of hydrogen were to hit a hydrogen target in the gaseous phase, would fusion occur at the rate predicted by the Gamow factor, or would some other process inhibit the fusion? Assume that cooling is sufficient to keep the target in the gas phase or in a supercritical fluid phase, as opposed to creating a plasma.