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<b>Ignition Regime for Fusion in a Degenerate Plasma</b>
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<b>Authors:</b> S. Son and N.J. Fisch
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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> December 2005
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<b>Submitted to:</b> Physics of Plasmas</p>


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We identify relevant parameter regimes in which aneutronic fuels can undergo fusion ignition in hot-ion degenerate plasma. Because of relativistic effects and partial degeneracy, the self-sustained burning regime is considerably larger than previously calculated. Inverse bremsstrahlung plays a major role in containing the reactor energy. We solve the radiation transfer equation and obtain the contribution to the heat conductivity from inverse bremsstrahlung.







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