Institute of Particle Physics

Design and Commissioning of a Deuterium-Tritium Gas Delivery System for Muon-Catalyzed Fusion in a Diamond Anvil Cell

We report the design, commissioning, and operation of deuterium-deuterium (DD) and deuterium-tritium (DT) gas delivery systems developed to load a diamond anvil cell (DAC) beam target for muon-catalyzed fusion (µCF). The DAC approach enables DT fuel to be compressed to gigapascal...

Coreless exoplanets induced by metal–silicate miscibility

The rocky interiors of exoplanets are generally expected to differentiate into a silicate mantle and a metallic core due to the immiscibility of metal and silicate under typical planetary formation conditions. Here, we use large-scale molecular dynamics simulations driven by mach...