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Description
The NanoPlasmonic Laser Induced Fusion Energy (NAPLIFE) project aims to avoid pre-detonation and instabilities by rapid and simultaneous ignition of the whole target. The project plans fusion by regulating the laser light absorption via resonant nanorod antennas implanted into a hydrogen rich polymer target. Up to now this is the only project using this method. In part of the tests, boron-nitride (BN) was added to the polymer. Theoretical considerations and first verification experiments will be presented. Our experiments with resonant nanoantennas accelerated protons up to 225 keV energy were accelerated. Some of these protons then led to p + 11B fusion, indicated by the sharp drop of observed backward proton emission numbers at the 150 keV resonance energy of the reaction. Variations of the nanoplasmonic target configurations are under study.
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The NAPLIFE Collaboration is both theoretical and experimental
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| Is this an abstract from experimental collaboration? | No |
| Name of experiment and experimental site | NAPLIFE Collaboration, |
| Is the speaker for that presentation defined? | No |
