A NEW THEORETICAL APPROACH TO RESONANT DT-MU FORMATION

A key process in the muon-catalysed fusion cycle is a low-energy colli sion of t mu with a D-2 molecule which leads, at appropriate incident energies, to the formation of a resonant complex containing dt mu. In this paper the result is described of a formal derivation of the parti al wave cross section for resonant dt mu formation, which makes use of elements of Feshbach's treatment of resonances. The expression obtain ed is similar to the Breit-Wigner formula. Full details of the calcula tion will be published elsewhere.