时间:周四,4月18日,15:00
地点:海纳苑8幢322
报告人:刘述军
题目:Assessing Proton-Boron Fusion Feasibility under non-Thermal Equilibrium
Conditions: Rider’s Inhibition Revisited
摘要:Compared to the D-T reaction, the neutron-free proton-boron (p-11B) fusion has garnered increasing attention in recent years. However, significant Bremsstrahlung losses pose a formidable challenge in p-11B plasmas in achieving Q > 1 in thermal equilibrium. The primary aim of this study is to corroborate Todd H. Rider’s seminal work in the 1997 Physics of Plasmas, who investigated the feasibility of sustaining p-11B fusion under non-thermal equilibrium conditions. Employing a series of simulations with new fusion cross-section, we assessed the recirculating power necessary to maintain the system’s non-thermal equilibrium and found that it is substantially greater than the fusion
power output, aligning with Rider’s conclusions, whether under the conditions of non-Maxwellian electron distribution or Maxwellian electron distribution, reactors reliant on non-equilibrium plasmas for p-11B fusion are unlikely to achieve net power production without the aid of highly efficient external heat engines. Maintaining the ion temperature at 300 keV and the Coulomb logarithm at 15, while increasing the electron temperature beyond 23.33 keV set by Rider, leads to diminished electron-ion energy transfer and heightened Bremsstrahlung radiation. When the electron temperature approaches approximately 140 keV, this progression ultimately leads to a scenario where the power of Bremsstrahlung loss equals the power of electron-ion interactions, yet remains inferior to the fusion power. Consequently, this results in a net gain in energy production.