Laser boron fusion reactor with picosecond petawatt block ignition
Plasma Physics
2018-05-23 v1
Abstract
For developing a laser boron fusion reactor driven by picosecond laser pulses of more than 30 petawatts power, advances are reported about computations for the plasma block generation by the dielectric explosion of the interaction. Further results are about the direct drive ignition mechanism by a single laser pulse without the problems of spherical irradiation. For the sufficiently large stopping lengths of the generated alpha particles in the plasma results from other projects can be used.
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@article{arxiv.1708.09722,
title = {Laser boron fusion reactor with picosecond petawatt block ignition},
author = {Heinrich Hora and Shalom Eliezer and Jiaxiang Wang and Georg Korn and Noaz Nissim and Yanxia Xu and Paraskevas Lalousis and Goetz Kirchhoff and George H. Miley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.09722},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures, extended tex from lectures on 5th and 6th June 2017in Shanghai/China