Fast ignition driven by quasi-monoenergetic ions: Optimal ion type and reduction of ignition energies with an ion beam array
@article{Honrubia2014FastID, title={Fast ignition driven by quasi-monoenergetic ions: Optimal ion type and reduction of ignition energies with an ion beam array}, author={Javier Honrubia and J. C. Fern{\'a}ndez and Bjorn Manuel Hegelich and Masakatsu Murakami and C{\'e}sar Daniel Enr{\'i}quez}, journal={Laser and Particle Beams}, year={2014}, volume={32}, pages={419-427} }
Fast ignition of inertial fusion targets driven by quasi-monoenergetic ion beams is investigated by means of numerical simulations. Light and intermediate ions such as lithium, carbon, aluminum and vanadium have been considered. Simulations show that the minimum ignition energies of an ideal configuration of compressed Deuterium-Tritium are almost independent on the ion atomic number. However, they are obtained for increasing ion energies, which scale, approximately, as Z2, where Z is the ion…
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