Inertial Confinement Fusion

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Department of Laser Physics and Photonics

Synopsis:

Main lecture goal is to acquaint students with certain detailed theoretical and experimental methods that have not been taught in subject FIF (Physics of Inertial Fusion).

Requirements:

Knowledge at the level of the basic course of physics

Syllabus of lectures:

1) Theory of the interaction of laser beams with plasma corona

2) Nonlinear processes, generation of hot electrons, improvement of hydro efficiency

3) Interaction of heavy ions beams with targets, deceleration of heavy ions in dense plasma

4) Targets for ion-driven fusion, possibilities of increasing of homogeneity of target irradiation

5) Physics of Rayleigh-Taylor, Richmeyer-Meshkov and Kelvin-Helmholzov instability

6) Shock a impact ignition

7) Fuel burn in different regimes of inertial fusion (ICF)

8) Optical diagnostic methods in ICF

9) X-ray diagnostic methods in ICF

10) Electron and ion diagnostic methods in ICF

11) Neutron diagnostics in ICF

12) IFE reactors (IFE - Inertial Fusion for Energy production)

13) Hybrid fusion-fission reactors and radioactive waste disposal

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Study Objective:

Knowledge: Main lecture goal is to acquaint students with certain detailed theoretical and experimental methods that have not been taught in subject FIF (Physics of Inertial Fusion).

Skills: application of the above mentioned knowledge

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] S. Eliezer, The Interaction of High/Power Lasers with Plasmas, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol 2002

[2] K. Niu, Nuclear Fusion. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1989.

[3] C. Yamanaka, Introduction to Laser Fusion, Harwood Academic, London 1991

[4] S. Atzeni, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, The Physics of Inertial Fusion: Beam Plasma Interaction, Hydrodynamics, Hot Dense Matter, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxforf 2004

[5] Laser Plasma Interactions 5: Inertial Confinement Fusion, edited by M.B. Hooper. SUSSP Publications, Edinburgh, 1995, pp. 105-137.

[6] Handbook of Plasma Physics,vol. 3 Physics of Laser Plasma, ed. S. Witkowski, North Holland Publishing, Amsterdam 1991

Recommended references:

[7] W.L. Kruer, The Physics of Laser-Plasma Interactions. Addison-Wesley, New York, 1988.

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Fyzika a technika termojaderné fúze (elective course)