Alignment of swift cluster ions in high-energy-density plasma

0562459 - FZÚ 2023 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Kawata, S. - Deutsch, C. - Gu, Yanjun
Alignment of swift cluster ions in high-energy-density plasma.
High energy density physics. Roč. 35, JUN (2020), č. článku 100740. ISSN 1574-1818. E-ISSN 1878-0563
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : cluster ion beam * inertial confinement fusion * stopping range
OECD category: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Impact factor: 1.218, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hedp.2019.100740

Unusual position exchange among ions constituting a swift cluster was found in a high-energy-density plasma. In this paper, the peculiar ion behavior appears in a Si cluster, moving with a speed of 0.2c (c: speed of light) in a solid Al plasma in the context of the cluster-ion beam driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF). The ion position exchange behavior of cluster ions may influence the cluster-ion beam ICF (CIF) target structure design. In this paper we discuss a possibility of cluster-ion beams as the energy driver in CIF. In conclusions, the present work suggests that the following two points in CIF: (1) The unusual ion position exchange of the cluster ions would not induce a remarkable change in the ion stopping range in CIF targets, and (2) the swift cluster ions may not provide a significant vicinage effect on the stopping range.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0334821