Thermonuclear fusion and generalized Gamow penetrability factor in intense laser fields

Abstract

A theoretical study on thermonuclear fusion including deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion and D-${}^3$He fusion in intense laser fields has been shown in this article. With the laser fields expected to be available in the near future, some quantitative results for the laser-induced modifications to the cross-sections are given. It is reported that the cross-sections are more sensitive to the external laser fields at the lower energies. An explicit generalized form of the Gamow penetrability factor is given for the predictions of the laser-induced effects for some other similar nuclear processes.