Abstract
An efficient method is proposed for generating thermonuclear neutrons by irradiating with a laser pulse a volume-structured material of subcritical density, consisting of a series of thin layers of condensed matter separated by interlayers of low-density matter (or a vacuum gap). The plasma ions are heated up to thermonuclear temperatures much higher than the electron temperature by hydrothermal dissipation of the energy of the laser radiation, as a wave of thermal explosions of the layers propagates along the laser beam axis, followed by collisions of plasma counterflows with conversion of the kinetic energy into thermal energy of ions. Different variants of the targets and experimental conditions are discussed in order to demonstrate the proposed method of neutron generation.
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