APPLIED PHYSICS

THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL JOURNAL


No. 3 Founded in 1994 Moscow 2009


Inertial electrostatic confinement and nuclear synthesis at interelectrode media of nanosecond vacuum discharge.
Part I. Experiment

Yu. K. Kurilenkov
Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS, Moscow, Russia

M. Skowronek
Laboratoire des Plasmas Denses, Universite Pierre et Marie. Curie, Paris, France

   We create and operate with a random interelectrode “dusty” media of high power density using the low energy nanosecond vacuum discharges. The subjects of our study are generation of energetic ions and DD neutrons, the trapping and release of fast ions by interelectrode complex ensembles of cold clusters and nanopaticles . The estimated experimental value of the neutron yield from DD-microfusion in the interelectrode space is variable and amounts to ~ 105—107/4p per shot under just ~ 1 J of total energy stored to create all discharge processes (U = 70 keV, Imax = 1 kA) . In a limiting case of total trapping of fast deuterium ions by the dense “dusty cloud” of clusters under partial hard x-rays diffusion and multiple fusion events inside, the pulsating neutrons yield have maximum values (table-top complex plasma “microreactor”) being two order of magnitude higher than for experiments on DD fusion driven by Coulomb explosion of laser irradiated deuterium clusters.

PACS: 52.50.-b

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