Michael J. Lavell, Ayden J. Kish, Andrew T. Sexton, Eugene S. Evans, Ibrahim Mohammad, Sara Gomez-Ramirez, William Scullin, Marcus Borscz, Sergey Pikuz, Thomas A. Mehlhorn, Max Tabak, Greg Ainsworth, Adam B. Sefkow
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A kinetic study of fusion burn waves in compressed deuterium–tritium and proton–boron plasmas
We present particle-in-cell simulations with Monte Carlo collisions of fusion burn waves in compressed deuterium–tritium and proton–boron plasmas. We study the energy balance in the one-dimensional expansion of a hot-spot by simulating Coulomb collisions, fusion reactions, and bremsstrahlung emission with a Monte Carlo model and inverse bremsstrahlung absorption using a new PIC model. This allows us to self-consistently capture the alpha particle heating and radiative losses in the expanding hot-spot and surrounding cold fuel. After verifying our model in a code-to-code comparison with both kinetic and fluid codes for the case of a deuterium–tritium hot-spot, we simulate the expansion of a proton–boron hot-spot initialized at 200 keV and 1,000 g/cm3. Our model predicts that energy radiated by the hot-spot is recaptured by the surrounding high-density opaque fuel reducing the expansion work done by the propagating burn wave. As a result, we find the net fusion energy produced over the course of $20$∼ps is twice the initial hot-spot energy independent of whether radiation physics is included.
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Frontiers in Physics publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research across the entire field, from experimental, to computational and theoretical physics. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, engineers and the public worldwide.