Forming a muonic hydrogen atom and bombarding it with boron-11 lowers the effective Coulomb barrier, increasing the fusion tunneling probability by several orders of magnitude below 100 keV.
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A novel approach to proton-boron-11 fusion
Forming a muonic hydrogen atom and bombarding it with boron-11 lowers the effective Coulomb barrier, increasing the fusion tunneling probability by several orders of magnitude below 100 keV.