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Surface heating of deuterium clusters by the field of a superintense ultrashort laser pulse for implementing the nuclear reaction d+d → 3He+n

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A new mechanism for heating the electron component of plasmas formed upon the application of a superintense ultrashort laser pulse to atomic clusters is proposed. Clusters considered here consist of deuterium atoms. Upon the emission of a large number of electrons, an irradiated cluster, which acquires a positive charge, explodes (Coulomb explosion). Deuterons that are ejected as the result of this possess high kinetic energies, so that collisions between them can result in 3He formation accompanied by neutron emission. The new mechanism of the heating of the electron plasma from clusters is based on the conjecture that, when an ionization electron is reflected from the inner surface of the cluster ion in the presence of a laser field, it predominantly absorbs (rather than emits) laser photons.

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  1. Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Institutskii pr. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700, Russia

    V. P. Krainov & M. B. Smirnov

  2. Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, pl. Kurchatova 1, Moscow, 123182, Russia

    M. B. Smirnov

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Translated from Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 64, No. 4, 2001, pp. 643–645.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2001 by Krainov, Smirnov.

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Krainov, V.P., Smirnov, M.B. Surface heating of deuterium clusters by the field of a superintense ultrashort laser pulse for implementing the nuclear reaction d+d → 3He+n . Phys. Atom. Nuclei 64, 585–587 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1368216

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