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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 363-367
Properties and Reaction | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22612
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Nuclear fusion rates in a muonic tritium molecule are calculated by the coupled rearrangement channel method. The interaction between two tritons is described by the optical model. The optical potential is determined by reproducing the t + t → α + n + n reaction cross section. The nuclear fusion rate obtained was in good agreement with an experimental value. The charge symmetry of nucleons is partially broken in the low energy t + t reaction by 30 %. The mechanism of the reaction is approximately described by the proton stripping reaction. We deny the possibility of the fusion through a negative parity resonant state.