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Lowering the reactor breakeven requirements for proton-Boron 11 fusion
Ian E. Ochs, Nathaniel J. Fisch
Recently, it has been shown that altering the natural collisional power flow of the proton-Boron 11 (pB11) fusion reaction can significantly reduce the Lawson product of ion densit…
Massive, Long-Lived Electrostatic Potentials in a Rotating Mirror Plasma
E. J. Kolmes, I. E. Ochs, J. -M. Rax +1
Hot plasma is highly conductive in the direction parallel to a magnetic field. This often means that the electrical potential will be nearly constant along any given field line. Wh…
The Critical Role of Isopotential Surfaces for Magnetostatic Ponderomotive Forces
Ian E. Ochs, Nathaniel J. Fisch
By producing localized wave regions at the ends of an open-field-line magnetic confinement system, ponderomotive walls can be used to differentially confine different species in th…
Ponderomotive Recoil for Electromagnetic Waves
I. E. Ochs, N. J. Fisch
When waves damp or amplify on resonant particles in a plasma, the nonresonant particles experience a recoil force that conserves the total momentum between the particles and electr…
Confinement Time and Ambipolar Potential in a Relativistic Mirror-Confined Plasma
I. E. Ochs, V. R. Munirov, N. J. Fisch
Advanced aneutronic fusion fuels such as proton-Boron tend to require much higher temperatures than conventional fuels like deuterium-tritium. For electrons, the bulk plasma…