International Conference on Muon Catalyzed Fusion
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International Conference on Muon Catalyzed Fusion
The year 2007 is the anniversary for many events in Muon Catalyzed Fusion
history: the muon discovery (1937), the prediction of muon catalyzed fusion
(1947), the experimental observation of µCF (1957), the experimental
discovery of the resonant ddmu formation (1967), the prediction of the high
efficiency of µCF in D/T mixtures (1977). That is a reason to organize the
meeting "Muon catalyzed fusion and related topics", to present and to
discuss the state-of-the-art (past/present/future) of µCF science, including
developments of its methods and their applications in the various fields of
physics.
The previous meetings were held in USA (Jackson Hole, 1984), Japan (Tokyo,
1986), in USSR (Gatchina, 1987), in USA (Sanibel, 1988), in Great Britain
(Oxford, 1989), in Austria (Vienna, 1990), in Sweden (Uppsala, 1992), in
Russia (Dubna, 1995), in Switzerland (Ascona, 1998) and in Japan (Shimoda,
2001). This meeting will be hosted by JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear
Research, Dubna) in co-operation with MUCATEX (Research Coordinative Center
on the Problem of Muon Catalyzed Fusion and Exotic Quantum Systems, Moscow).
Conference µCF-07 will be held in Dubna, which is located around 130 km
north of Moscow amidst beautiful countryside on the area, surrounded by the
Volga, Dubna and Sister rivers and by the Moscow channel.
The conference covers the broad spectrum of research problems, which the µCF
community members are involved in now, applying the ideas and methods
initiated by or originated from µCF.
Conference topics include:
. Fundamental muon physics (decay, capture, other properties);
. Exotic hydrogen and helium atoms/molecules (cascade, formation,
collisions);
. µCF phenomena in mixtures of hydrogen isotopes;
. µCF methods development in physics of exotic (pionic, kaonic, p-bar)
atoms/molecules;
. Theory of few body exotic systems;
. Technological applications of muon physics (balk radiography, neutron
source, etc.).