Neutron yield dependence on deuterium ion energy distribution from deuterated methane clusters with an intense femtosecond laser

Authors :: Sang Won Lee
Sungmo Nam
Jae Min Han
Hyungki Cha
Yong-Joo Rhee
Source :: 2009 Conference on Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.
Publication Year :: 2009
Publisher :: IEEE, 2009.
Abstract: Neutron generation experiment with deuterated methane (CD4) clusters exposed to a femtosecond laser beam (620 mJ, 28 fs) was done. The relation of ion energy distribution to cluster size was studied. By analyzing TOF ion signals, neutron yield was estimated to be 2 × 105 per laser shot.

Subjects :: Materials science
Physics::Optics
Plasma
Laser
Methane
Ion
law.invention
chemistry.chemical_compound
Deuterium
chemistry
law
Femtosecond
Neutron
Atomic physics
Nuclear Experiment
Inertial confinement fusion

Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: 2009 Conference on Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Accession number :: edsair.doi...........57a08bb87ba24005d99541dbcb5b698b
Full Text :: https://doi.org/10.1109/cleopr.2009.5292698

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