In Ref. [2] the use of the annihilation of antiprotons to heat the compressed thermonuclear fuel was proposed. According to Ref. [2], the antiprotons should annihilate on the nuclei of the fuel. Later, the use of annihilation of antiprotons on the heavy nuclei was also discussed [8-10]. The advantage of this reaction is that the ranges of some of its products in the fuel are rather short [8-10]...

At thermal energies near stellar conditions, nuclear reactions are sensitive to resonance strengths of the reaction cross-section. In this paper, were evaluated numerically by means rate calculations using a written Matlab code, at interest in reactions. The results compared with standard before and after application statistical analyses, select best parameters that made theoretical as close po...

The possibility of using antihydrogen for igniting inertial confinement fusion pellets or triggering large scale thermonuclear explosions is investigated. The number of antiproton annihilations required to start a thermonuclear burn wave in either D or Li2DT is found to be about 10/k, where k is the compression factor of the fuel to be ignited. We conclude that the financial and energy investme...

Abstract Big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is the standard model theory for production of light nuclides during early stages universe, taking place about 20 minutes after big bang. Deuterium production, in particular, highly sensitive to primordial baryon density and number neutrino species, its abundance serves as a test conditions universe. The comparison observed deuterium abundances with predi...