Petawatt laser pulses for proton-boron high gain fusion with avalanche reactions excluding problems of nuclear radiation

被引:7
作者
Hora, Heinrich [1 ]
Lalousis, Paraskevas [2 ]
Giuffrida, Lorenzo [3 ]
Margarone, Daniele [3 ]
Korn, Georg [3 ]
Eliezer, Shalom [4 ,5 ]
Miley, George H. [6 ]
Moustaizis, Stavros [7 ]
Mourou, Gerard [8 ]
机构
[1] Univ New S Wales, Dept Theoret Phys, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
[2] FORTH, Inst Elect Struct & Lasers, Iraklion, Greece
[3] ELI Beamline Project, ASCR, Inst Phys, PALS Ctr, Prague, Czech Republic
[4] Univ Politecn Madrid, Inst Nucl Fus, Madrid, Spain
[5] Soreq Res Ctr, Yavne, Israel
[6] Univ Illinois, Dept Nucl Plasma & Radiol Engn, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[7] Technival Univ Crete, Lab Matter Struct & Laser Phys, Khania, Greece
[8] Ecole Polytech, DAER IZEST, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
来源
RESEARCH USING EXTREME LIGHT: ENTERING NEW FRONTIERS WITH PETAWATT-CLASS LASERS II | 2015年 / 9515卷
关键词
ultrahigh plasma acceleration; nonlinear force; ultrahigh magnetic fields; clean aneutronic HB11 fusion; PLASMA INTERACTION; PICOSECOND; ACCELERATION; COMPRESSION; IGNITION; FORCES; BEAMS; FIELD; PS;
D O I
10.1117/12.2181943
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
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.
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