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Kilotesla Magnetic Assisted Fast Laser Ignited Boron-11 Hydrogen Fusion with Nonlinear Force Driven Ultrahigh Accelerated Plasma Blocks

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Nuclear fusion with confinement by available kilotesla magnetic fields allows improved performance for Inertial Confinement Fusion. The combination of this approach with the established ultrahigh laser acceleration of plasma blocks driven by nonlinear (ponderomotive) forces of ps laser pulses of exawatt power may permit high gain boron-11 fusion with protons. This potentially provides a path to very attractive fusion power stations based on aneutronic fusion.

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  1. Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers FORTH, Heraklion, Greece

    P. Lalousis

  2. Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

    S. Moustaizis

  3. Department of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    H. Hora

  4. Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Campus, Urbana, IL, USA

    G. H. Miley

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Lalousis, P., Moustaizis, S., Hora, H. et al. Kilotesla Magnetic Assisted Fast Laser Ignited Boron-11 Hydrogen Fusion with Nonlinear Force Driven Ultrahigh Accelerated Plasma Blocks. J Fusion Energ 34, 62–67 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-014-9759-5

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