{"paper":{"title":"Proton-Boron Fusion Yield Increased by Orders of Magnitude with Foam Targets","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"physics.plasm-ph","authors_text":"Ben-Zheng Chen, Bing Liu, Bo Cui, Bu-Bo Ma, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann, Fang-Fang Li, Feng Lu, Guan-Chao Zhao, Guo-Qing Xiao, Hao Xu, Hong-Wei Zhao, Hua-sheng Xie, Jia-Lin Zhang, Jian Teng, Jian-Xing Li, Jie-Ru Ren, Lei-Feng Cao, Lei Yang, Li-Rong Liu, Min-Sheng Liu, Quan-Ping Fan, Rui Cheng, Shao-yi Wang, Shi-Zheng Zhang, Wei-min Zhou, Wei Qi, Wei-Wu Wang, Wen-Qing Wei, Xing Xu, Xue-Guang Ren, Yong-tao Zhao, Yu Lei, Yu-qiu Gu, Zhao Wang, Zhi-gang Deng, Zhong-Feng Xu, Zhong-Min Hu, Zong-Qing Zhao","submitted_at":"2023-08-21T17:25:29Z","abstract_excerpt":"A novel intense beam-driven scheme for high yield of the tri-alpha reaction 11B(p,{\\alpha})2{\\alpha} was investigated. We used a foam target made of cellulose triacetate (TAC, C_9H_{16}O_8) doped with boron. It was then heated volumetrically by soft X-ray radiation from a laser heated hohlraum and turned into a homogenous, and long living plasma. We employed a picosecond laser pulse to generate a high-intensity energetic proton beam via the well-known Target Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA) mechanism. We observed up to 10^{10}/sr {\\alpha} particles per laser shot. This constitutes presently t"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2308.10878","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2308.10878/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}