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Studies on possible alternative schemes based on two-laser driver for inertial fusion energy applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2009

C. Strangio ,
A. Caruso  and
M. Aglione
C. Strangio*
Affiliation:
Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione ENEA-Frascati, Italy
A. Caruso
Affiliation:
Università Kore-Enna, Enna, Italy
M. Aglione
Affiliation:
Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione ENEA-Frascati, Italy
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: C. Strangio, Associazione EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione ENEA-Frascati, Italy. E-mail: strangio@frascati.enea.it
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Abstract

Unconventional, promising approaches to inertial fusion energy (IFE) proposed and studied in the framework of IFE keep-in-touch activity at Frascati EURATOM-ENEA Association will be reconsidered for the present more advanced technological context associated to a planned large installations scenario. Then the possibility to generate laser-produced fast heavy-ion sources (e.g., Bi ions, tens GeV) will be explored taking as reference results obtained in the FIGEX experiment scaled toward thermonuclear regimes. A possible dimensioning of such sources will be also given as well as the associated laser requirements.

Keywords

Control amount of mass modeCausally Isolated TargetsFast IgnitionInjected EntropyHiPERInertial Fusion EnergyIon sources
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , June 2009 , pp. 303 - 309
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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