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Petawatt laser pulses for proton-boron high gain fusion with avalanche reactions excluding problems of nuclear radiation| Format | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
An alternative way may be possible for igniting solid density hydrogen-11B (HB11) fuel. The use of >petawatt-ps laser pulses from the non-thermal ignition based on ultrahigh acceleration of plasma blocks by the nonlinear (ponderomotive) force, has to be combined with the measured ultrahigh magnetic fields in the 10 kilotesla range for cylindrical trapping. The evaluation of measured alpha particles from HB11 reactions arrives at the conclusion that apart from the usual binary nuclear reactions, secondary reactions by an avalanche multiplication may cause the high gains, even much higher than from deuterium tritium fusion. This may be leading to a concept of clean economic power generation.
Paper Details
Date Published: 1 May 2015
PDF: 15 pages
Proc. SPIE 9515, Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers II, 951518 (1 May 2015); doi: 10.1117/12.2181943
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9515:
Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers II
Georg Korn; Luis O. Silva, Editor(s)
PDF: 15 pages
Proc. SPIE 9515, Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers II, 951518 (1 May 2015); doi: 10.1117/12.2181943
Show Author Affiliations
Heinrich Hora, The Univ. of New South Wales (Australia)
Paraskevas Lalousis, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece)
Lorenzo Giuffrida, Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
Daniele Margarone, Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
Georg Korn, Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
Paraskevas Lalousis, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (Greece)
Lorenzo Giuffrida, Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
Daniele Margarone, Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
Georg Korn, Institute of Physics of the ASCR, v.v.i. (Czech Republic)
Shalom Eliezer, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Soreq Research Ctr. (Israel)
George H. Miley, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)
Stavros Moustaizis, Technical Univ. of Crete (Greece)
Gérard Mourou, Ecole Polytechnique (France)
Soreq Research Ctr. (Israel)
George H. Miley, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States)
Stavros Moustaizis, Technical Univ. of Crete (Greece)
Gérard Mourou, Ecole Polytechnique (France)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9515:
Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers II
Georg Korn; Luis O. Silva, Editor(s)
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