Directed pulsed neutron source generation from inverse kinematic reactions driven by intense lasers

Yilin Yao; Zhenbo Wu; Tao Ye; Shaoping Zhu; Xiantu He; Bin Qiao

doi:10.1063/5.0207839

Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 9, Issue 6, 065201(2024)

Directed pulsed neutron source generation from inverse kinematic reactions driven by intense lasers

Yilin Yao¹, Zhenbo Wu¹, Tao Ye², Shaoping Zhu², Xiantu He², and Bin Qiao^1,3、a)

¹Center for Applied Physics and Technology, HEDPS and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

²Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China

³Frontiers Science Center for Nano-Optoelectronics, Peking University, Beijing 100094, China

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Received: Mar. 11, 2024

Accepted: Sep. 10, 2024

Published Online: Jan. 8, 2025

The Author Email: Qiao Bin (bqiao@pku.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1063/5.0207839

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