The detection of the ionic products of low-rate fusion reactions, and in particular of the 11B
(p, α) 2α, is one of the recognized main problems in experiments where these reactions are …

In a recent experiment at the Trident laser facility, a laser-driven beam of
quasimonoenergetic aluminum ions was used to heat solid gold and diamond foils …

Laser plasmas can be produced when high-power laser beams are focused in matter. A
focused laser beam of TW (terawatt)-level high power has an extremely strong electric field …

Our understanding of a large range of astrophysical phenomena depends on a precise
knowledge of charged particle nuclear reactions that occur at very low rates, which are …

Relativistic electron beams driven by laser wakefield acceleration were utilized to produce
ultrashort neutron sources. The experiment was carried out on the 38 fs,∼ 0.5 J, 800 nm Ti …

In this work, we present a new and general method for measuring the astrophysical S factor
of nuclear reactions in laser-induced plasmas and we apply it to H 2 (d, n) He 3. The …

The possibility of studying photonuclear reactions near the threshold by means of powerful
femtosecond lasers is explored by considering the example of deuteron photodisintegration …

We present a scaling law (Y∼ Eβ) of fusion neutron yields (Y) for laser pulse energy (E) in
laser-cluster fusion experiments. We compare the available neutron yield data from previous …

A pulsed fast neutron source is critical for applications of fast neutron resonance
radiography and fast neutron absorption spectroscopy. However, due to the large …

We measured the average deuterium cluster size within a mixture of deuterium clusters and
helium gas by detecting Rayleigh scattering signals. The average cluster size from the gas …