Interaction of Laguerre-Gaussian laser pulses with borane targets of different hydrogen-boron ratio
Lars Reichwein1,2, Alexander Pukhov3, Markus Büscher4,5
1Peter Grünberg Institut (PGI-6), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany. l.reichwein@fz-juelich.de.
Abstract:
We study the interaction of high-intensity Laguerre-Gaussian laser pulses with hydrogen-boron compounds targets using 3D particle-in-cell simulations. The ratio of hydrogen to boron is varied throughout different simulation runs as a proxy model for various borane molecules that can be synthesized. We show that the strength of the axial magnetic fields generated via the Inverse Faraday effect depends on the specific ratio of target components, making boranes and the option to tune their composition of interest for proton-boron fusion.
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