Laser and Particle Beams, Volume. 2023, Issue 2, 6924841(2023)
Photon and Neutron Production as In Situ Diagnostics of Proton-Boron Fusion
Short-pulse, ultrahigh-intensity lasers have opened new regimes for studying fusion plasmas and creating novel ultrashort ion beams and neutron sources. Diagnosing the plasma in these experiments is important for optimizing the fusion yield but difficult due to the picosecond time scales, 10 s of micron-cubed volumes, and high densities. We propose to use the yields of photons and neutrons produced by parallel reactions involving the same reactants to diagnose the plasma conditions and predict the yields of specific reactions of interest. In this work, we focus on verifying the yield of the high-interest aneutronic proton-boron fusion reaction
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B. M. Hegelich, L. Labun, O. Z. Labun, T. A. Mehlhorn, Dimitri Batani. Photon and Neutron Production as In Situ Diagnostics of Proton-Boron Fusion[J]. Laser and Particle Beams, 2023, 2023(2): 6924841
Category: Research Articles
Received: Jul. 26, 2022
Accepted: Apr. 4, 2023
Published Online: May. 29, 2023
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