Avalanche proton-boron fusion based on elastic nuclear collisions

作者:Eliezer Shalom; Hora Heinrich; Korn Georg; Nissim Noaz; Val Jose Maria Martinez
来源:Physics of Plasmas, 2016, 23(5): 050704.
DOI:10.1063/1.4950824

摘要

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. Published by AIP Publishing.

  • 出版日期2016-5