Avalanche proton-boron fusion based on elastic nuclear collisions

0488130 - FZÚ 2018 RIV US eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Eliezer, S. - Hora, H. - Korn, Georg - Nissim, N. - Val, J.M.M.
Avalanche proton-boron fusion based on elastic nuclear collisions.
Physics of Plasmas. Roč. 23, č. 5 (2016), s. 1-3, č. článku 050704. ISSN 1070-664X. E-ISSN 1089-7674
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT EF15_008/0000162
Grant ostatní: ELI Beamlines(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_008/0000162
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378271
Klíčová slova: laser-produced plasma * ignition * forces
Obor OECD: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Impakt faktor: 2.115, rok: 2016

Recent experiments done at Prague with the 600 J/0.2 ns PALS laser interacting with a layer of boron dopants in a hydrogen enriched target have produced around 10(9) alphas. We suggest that these unexpected very high fusion reactions of proton with B-11 indicate an avalanche multiplication for the measured anomalously high nuclear reaction yields. This can be explained by elastic nuclear collisions in the broad 600 keV energy band, which is coincident with the high nuclear p-B-11 fusion cross section, by the way of multiplication through generation of three secondary alpha particles from a single primarily produced alpha particle.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0282749