Microscopic Description of Energy Production

We investigate the possibility of gaining energy from nuclear fusion reactions using different mixtures of D, T and ⁶Li. First, a plasma in equilibrium is studied at different densities and temperatures. In a second, highly non equilibrium case, the plasma is at high densities and excitation energies. While the first case could lead to an energy gain especially when coupled to an accelerator, in the second case the energy given to the system might be larger than the output energy even for a D+T plasma because of very small pellet sizes used in the calculations.