Nuclear Fusion in Laser-Driven Counter-Streaming Collisionless Plasmas
Abstract
Nuclear fusion reactions are the most important processes in nature to power stars and produce new elements, and lie at the center of the understanding of nucleosynthesis in the universe. It is critically important to study the reactions in full plasma environments that are close to true astrophysical conditions. By using laser-driven counter-streaming collisionless plasmas, we studied the fusion DDHe in a Gamow-like window around 27 keV. The results show that astrophysical nuclear reaction yield can be modulated significantly by the self-generated electromagnetic fields and the collective motion of the plasma. This plasma-version mini-collider may provide a novel tool for studies of astrophysics-interested nuclear reactions in plasma with tunable energies in earth-based laboratories.
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@article{arxiv.1611.03951,
title = {Nuclear Fusion in Laser-Driven Counter-Streaming Collisionless Plasmas},
author = {Xiaopeng Zhang and Jiarui Zhao and Dawei Yuan and Changbo Fu and Jie Bao and Liming Chen and Jianjun He and Long Hou and Liang Li and Yanfei Li and Yutong Li and Guoqiang Liao and Yongjoo Rhee and Yang Sun and Skiwei Xu and Gang Zhao and Baojun Zhu and Jianqiang Zhu and Zhe Zhang and Jie Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.03951},
year = {2017}
}
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5 pages; 4figures