Status and perspectives of the FUSION INFN project for the study and optimization of the 11B(p,α)2α nuclear fusion reaction for inertial confinement applications

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378271%3A_____%2F25%3A00639866" target="_blank" >RIV/68378271:_____/25:00639866 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61389021:_____/25:00648104

Result on the web

<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0370455" target="_blank" >https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0370455</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lpb.2025.10001" target="_blank" >10.1017/lpb.2025.10001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Status and perspectives of the FUSION INFN project for the study and optimization of the 11B(p,α)2α nuclear fusion reaction for inertial confinement applications

Original language description

The FUSION project was launched in 2022 by researchers from INFN and ENEA. This project marks the first scientific initiative funded by INFN in the field of Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). The main objectives of FUSION are to develop a new generation of solid targets designed to enhance the fusion reaction rate, being this reaction a potential candidate for future ICF schemes. FUSION will also focus on designing novel diagnostic techniques for measuring reaction products and, ultimately, estimating alpha and proton cross-sections in a plasma environment. The project will be carried out through two experimental campaigns at a laser facility equipped with a high-energy, long-pulse (picosecond) laser. In the proposed experimental setup, the 11B(p, alpha)2alpha reaction will be triggered simultaneously ‘in target’ by the protons generated in the laser matter interaction and 11B present in the same expanding plasma and in the ‘pitcher-catcher’ configuration. In FUSION, a set of measurements will also be dedicated to a first estimation of the proton and alpha-stopping power in a plasma. FUSION will enable a comprehensive understanding of the reactions and will help in optimize the conditions for future applications in inertial nuclear fusion with the reaction.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10306 - Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Laser and Particle Beams

ISSN

0263-0346

e-ISSN

1469-803X

Volume of the periodical

43

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Oct

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

e4

UT code for WoS article

001586882700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105018669234