α particle space distribution from fusion reactions in Boron irradiated by mono-energetic protons

Riccardo De Angelis; Danilo Giulietti; Lucio Calcagnile; Gianluca Quarta; Pierluigi Andreoli; Mattia Cipriani; Fabrizio Consoli; G. Cristofari; Domenico Delle Side; Giorgio Di Giorgio; Francesco Ingenito; Lucio Maruccio

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201816705005

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Volume 167 (2018)

EPJ Web of Conferences, 167 (2018) 05005

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Issue		EPJ Web of Conferences Volume 167, 2018 Plasma Physics by Laser and Applications (PPLA 2017)


Article Number		05005
Number of page(s)		5
Section		Laser Plasma Applications
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816705005
Published online		09 January 2018

EPJ Web of Conferences 167, 05005 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201816705005

α particle space distribution from fusion reactions in Boron irradiated by mono-energetic protons

Riccardo De Angelis¹, Danilo Giulietti¹^,2^*, Lucio Calcagnile³, Gianluca Quarta³, Pierluigi Andreoli¹, Mattia Cipriani¹, Fabrizio Consoli¹, G. Cristofari¹, Domenico Delle Side³, Giorgio Di Giorgio¹, Francesco Ingenito¹ and Lucio Maruccio³

¹ ENEA, Fusion and Nuclear Safety Department, C.R. Frascati, Via E. Fermi 45, 00044 Frascati, Italy
² Physics Department of the University and INFN, Pisa, Italy
³ 3CEDAD, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica “E. De Giorgi”, Universitá del Salento - Lecce, Italy

^* Corresponding author: danilo.giulietti@unipi.it

Published online: 9 January 2018

Abstract

This work presents results regarding the p + ¹¹B → 3α + 8.7MeV aneutronic fusion reaction. We obtained such results by directing a 0.675 MeV proton beam from a Tandetron accelerator to a solid Boron sample, varying the incidence angle. Three different detectors were used to reveal the alpha particles emitted during the experiments. The evidence obtained leads us to propose an innovative scheme to investigate the yield of the aneutronic reaction when the proton beam is directed against a ¹¹B laser induced plasma.

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