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Vittorio Violante, Antonella De Ninno
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 31 | Number 2 | March 1997 | Pages 219-227
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reaction in Solid | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A30824
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The behavior of ions confined by means of quadrupolar electrodynamic containment around palladium lattice tetrahedral sites is discussed. Ion confinement in a quadrupolar trap is known to be strongly influenced by initial conditions and trap parameters. The system studied is a lattice ion trap for deuterons, supposing they occupy the tetrahedral sites over a certain concentration. The electron motions seem to have a dominant role in the dynamics of two deuterons moving around such lattice sites. A computer simulation describes the deuteron dynamics and reveals an approach mechanism that could dramatically decrease the mean distance between two positive charges embedded in a lattice.