3 papers
physics.plasm-ph2024
Laboratory-scale Perpendicular Collisionless Shock Generation and Ion Acceleration in Magnetized Head-on Colliding Plasmas
P. Liu, D. Wu, D. W. Yuan +4
Magnetized collisionless shocks drive particle acceleration broadly in space and astrophysics. We perform the first large-scale particle-in-cell simulations with realistic laborato…
physics.plasm-ph2024
Ion Kinetics and Neutron Generation Associated with Electromagnetic Turbulence in Laboratory-scale Counter-streaming Plasmas
P. Liu, D. Wu, T. X. Hu +5
Electromagnetic turbulence and ion kinetics in counter-streaming plasmas hold great significance in laboratory astrophysics, such as turbulence field amplification and particle ene…
physics.plasm-ph2023
A high-efficiency proton-boron fusion scheme taking into account the effects of quantum degeneracy
S. J. Liu, D. Wu, T. X. Hu +11
The proton-boron (p-B) reaction is regarded as the holy grail of advanced fusion fuels, since the primary reaction produces three particles with few neutrons and induced…