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Thermonuclear fusion triggered by collapsing standing whistler waves in magnetized overdense plasmas
Bibliographic Information
- Published
- 2020-01-28
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Rights Information
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- https://link.aps.org/licenses/aps-default-license
- DOI
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- 10.1103/physreve.101.013206
- 10.48550/arxiv.2001.02599
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
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Description
Thermal fusion plasmas initiated by standing whistler waves are investigated numerically by two- and one-dimensional Particle-in-Cell simulations. When a standing whistler wave collapses due to the wave breaking of ion plasma waves, the energy of the electromagnetic waves transfers directly to the ion kinetic energy. Here we find that the ion heating by the standing whistler wave is operational even in multi-dimensional simulations of multi-ion species targets, such as deuterium-tritium (DT) ices and solid ammonia borane (H$_6$BN). The energy conversion efficiency to ions becomes as high as 15% of the injected laser energy, which depends significantly on the target thickness and laser pulse duration. The ion temperature could reach a few tens of keV or much higher if appropriate laser-plasma conditions are selected. DT fusion plasmas generated by this method must be useful as efficient neutron sources. Our numerical simulations suggest that the neutron generation efficiency exceeds 10$^9$ n/J per steradian, which is beyond the current achievements of the state-of-the-art laser experiments. The standing whistler wave heating would expand the experimental possibility for an alternative ignition design of magnetically confined laser fusion, and also for more difficult fusion reactions including the aneutronic proton-boron reaction.
16 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in PRE
Journal
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- Physical Review E
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Physical Review E 101 (1), 013206-, 2020-01-28
American Physical Society (APS)
