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Strong shock-phenomena at petawatt-picosecond laser side-on ignition fusion of uncompressed hydrogen-boron11

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An extreme anomaly of laser-plasma interaction with petawatt-picosecond (PW-ps) pulses of very high contrast ratio for suppression of relativistic self-focusing permitted a come-back of the Bobin-Chu side-on ignition of uncompressed deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion fuel. The plasma blocks for the side-on ignition have to be produced by the well confirmed nonlinear force acceleration which is about 100,000 times higher than thermo-kinetic fluid-dynamic acceleration for comparison with astrophysical cases. It is essential that the dielectric plasma properties within the nonlinear force are used. Using the measured ion beam densities above 1011 A s/cm2 the ignition mechanism needed numerical and theoretical studies of extremely strong shock phenomena. When extending these results to the side-on ignition of uncompressed hydrogen-boron11 (HB11), surprisingly, the ignition by this shock mechanism was only about 10 times more difficult than for DT in contrast to ignition by spherical laser driven compression using thermo-kinetic conditions in which case HB11 ignition is 100,000 times more difficult than DT.

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  1. Department of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia

    Heinrich Hora

  2. Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    George H. Miley & Xiaoling Yang

  3. Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser FORTH, PO Box 1527, Heraklion, Crete, 71110, Greece

    Paraskevas Lalousis

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Hora, H., Miley, G.H., Yang, X. et al. Strong shock-phenomena at petawatt-picosecond laser side-on ignition fusion of uncompressed hydrogen-boron11. Astrophys Space Sci 336, 225–228 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-011-0681-2

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