Coulomb explosion of nanodroplets drives the conversion of laser energy to nuclear energy

Isidore Last; Shlomo Ron; Andreas Heidenreich; Joshua Jortner

doi:10.1017/hpl.2013.10

Coulomb explosion of nanodroplets drives the conversion of laser energy to nuclear energy

Isidore Last, Shlomo Ron, Andreas Heidenreich, Joshua Jortner^*

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School of Chemistry

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Theoretical-computational studies of table-Top laser-driven nuclear fusion of high-energy (up to 15 MeV) deuterons with 7Li, 6Li, and D nuclei demonstrate the attainment of high fusion yields within a source-target reaction design. This constitutes a source of Coulomb-exploding deuterium nanodroplets driven by an ultraintense femtosecond near-infrared laser and a solid hollow cylindrical target containing the second element. The source-target reaction design attains the highest table-Top fusion efficiencies (up to 4 × 10₉ J_-1 per laser pulse) obtained to date. The highest conversion efficiency of laser energy to nuclear energy (10_-2-10_-3/ for table-Top DD fusion attained in the source-target design is comparable to that for DT fusion currently accomplished for 'big science' inertial fusion setups.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69-73
Number of pages	5
Journal	High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2013.10
State	Published - 20 Jun 2013

Keywords

Coulomb explosion
nanodroplets and clusters
source-Target design
table top nuclear fusion
ultraintense lasers

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