APPLIED PHYSICSTHE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL JOURNAL
Inertial electrostatic confinement and nuclear synthesis at interelectrode
media of nanosecond vacuum discharge. Yu. K. Kurilenkov M. Skowronek
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.
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