Speaker
Márk Aladi
(HUN-REN Wigner RCP)
Description
We develop a compact experimental setup to accelerate atoms from thin foils and gas targets. The energy and flux of plasma ions are measured with a Thomson parabola spectrometer and nuclear track detectors. We focus on the aneutronic p11B reaction which generates three energetic alpha particles. The yield of fusion products is measured with time-of-flight spectroscopy. We investigate the effect of metal nanoparticles to the yield and energy of the ions and fusion products, too. The plasmonic near field enhancement can locally increase the efficiency of accelerating processes. We test more target geometries with a 30 mJ/40 fs Ti:Sa laser system.
