Slide 5 heavy ion fusion science virtual national laboratory john nuckolls, et. In terms of theory, the program is developing a sourcetotarget numerical simulation capability. Fusion is simple enough for home users and powerful enough for it professionals, developers and businesses. Heavyion fusion reactions around the coulomb barrier. The board especially notes his technical contributions to the fusion magnetic mirror program at llnl, his many analytical assessments of potential fusion nonelectric applications and his leadership of the national heavy ion fusion program while at lbnl. The current phase i program has two new experiments among its research goals. A national plan for heavy ion fusion research is outlined. Heavy ion induction linacs for fusion conference osti. Multiturn injection into accumulators for heavy ion inertial fusion. The goal of the pop phase of the program is to obtain enough information to justify and build a socalled integrated research experiment ire. A program for coupledchannel calculations with all order. Students, parents, faculty and staff at qualifying academic institutions are eligible for big.
The transfer of the heavy ion fusion program from the defense programs to the office of energy research is discussed. Review of accelerator driven heavy ion nuclear fusion. Research on heavy ion fusion as the energy source has always gone hand in hand with more advanced scientific programs to demonstrate the feasibility of inertial fusion by high power lasers. An inertial fusion power plant is intended to produce electric power by use of inertial confinement fusion techniques on an industrial scale. T1 a program for coupledchannel calculations with all order couplings for heavy ion fusion reactions. Mesh refinement for particleincell plasma simulations. Heavy ion fusion it is a great pleasure to welcome all participants and companions to the 15th international symposium on heavy ion fusion. In addition, they represent an attractive driver option for a high. This chapter deals with the technologies other than the driver technologies covered in chapter 2 that are required to produce and utilize the energy from fusion nuclear reactions in an inertial fusion energy ife system. The mission of the restructured fusion program 1 is to. Pop research on heavy ion accelerators has been in progress for about a year. Now part of the ion beam technology program, our work in fusion energy.
Lbnls fusion energy program is part of a smaller parallel effort, supported by the does office of science, to harness inertial fusion energy for electric power production by using powerful and energetic beams of heavy ions to drive the target. Particle and heavy ion transport code system, phits. Significant experimental and theoretical progress has been made in the u. This paper will include an overview of the heavy ion fusion program abroad and a more indepth view of the progress and plans of the u. Studies of heavyion reactions and transuranic nuclei. Enhanced collective stopping and drift of electron beams in fusion plasmas with heavy ion species xiaojuan wang, zhanghu hu, and younian wang. A program for coupledchannel calculations with all order couplings for heavy ion fusion reactions k. Restarting hcx to explore the beam physics issues of 10hz operation of a driver scale injector beam is feasible and relatively inexpensive given the existing investment into that facility. Despite the rapid progress in computer power, past and anticipated, one must consider the use of the most advanced numerical techniques, if we are to reach our goal expeditiously. Beam simulations for ire and driverstatus and strategy. Fusion run windows on mac virtual machines for mac vmware. Mems based ion beam drivers for magnetized target fusion. This book presents papers on heavy ion fusion reactions.
Particle and heavy ion transport code system phits. The heavy ion fusion program in the usa sciencedirect. The first sections in this chapter cover the targets, chambers, related materials issues, as well as tritium production and recovery. The fournanosecond pulse lengths we produced put heavy ion beams for the first time within range of the pulse lengths necessary for meaningful highenergydensity physics and for fusion power application, says grant logan, a physicist with berkeley labs accelerator and fusion research division afrd, who leads the hif research effort here and heads the u. A longtime contributor to the labs heavy ion fusion program, celata was invited to speak on the latest developments in hif research at the annual meeting of the american physical society in denver, may 14, 2004, the second year in a row that aps invited her to give a talk. Two established options for possible mediumterm implementation of fusion energy production are magnetic confinement, being used in the iter international project, and laserbased inertial. Status of the us heavy ion fusion program status of the us heavy ion fusion program bangerter, roger o 19990201 00. Kruppa3 1 institute for nuclear theory, department of physics, university of washington, seattle, wa 98195, usa. This paper will discuss only the heavy ion fusion program. This type of power plant is still in a research phase. To manage program growth, we have developed a new inertial fusion energy research and we have established a virtual national laboratory for heavy ion fusion.
The fusion program, both short term and long term, is in trouble. Nonuniformity smoothing of directdriven fuel target implosion by phase control in heavy ion inertial fusion. Fusion breeding for midcentury sustainable power springerlink. Status of the us heavy ion fusion program deepdyve. The us heavy ion fusion program, fusion engineering and. The participants in the first workshop on what became known as heavy ion fusion hif were an exceptional group from the fusion and accelerator communities. Mems based ion beam drivers for magnetized target fusion lbnl. Recent and planned upgrades of the facilities at gsi, in russia, and in japan greatly enhance the ability to study energy deposition in hot dense matter. It discusses the importance of economics in fusion research in the united states. Heavy ion fusion program to simulate the beams in an integrated research experiments ire facility and a fusion driver are presented in overview. The process is known as high energy heavy ion fusion. The heavy ion fusion program in the usa researchgate.
Heavy ion fusion accelerator research hifar program. Heavy ion fusion energy program in russia request pdf. Lbnls fusion energy program is part of a smaller parallel effort, supported by the does office of science, to harness inertial fusion energy for electric power production by using powerful and energetic beams of heavy ions to drive the target the longterm goal is for the targets to yield much more energy than was put into them by the beams. The us heavy ion fusion program the us heavy ion fusion program bangerter, roger o. Pdf the fusion cross section and energy dependence of the. The heavy ion fusion virtual national laboratory status. Fusion run windows on mac virtual machines for mac. Accelerators have long life, good reliability, and high pulse repetition rates. Interest in heavyion reactions, specifically fusionfission, at bombarding energies. A program for coupledchannels calculations with all order. Fusion reactions and quantum tunneling basics of the coupledchannels method concept of fusion barrier distribution quasielastic scattering and quantum reflection heavy ion fusion reactions around the coulomb barrier cf. Department of energy has established a new, larger inertial fusion energy program. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda.
I was the director of the office of laser fusion at the energy research and development administration erda in 1976, as mentioned by robert burke in his letter physics today, june 2010, page 59. Such a fusion power plant would produce about 100 gw of power rather than the 1 gw desired by the power industry. The electrostatic quadrupole esq injector configuration consists of a zeolite source, a diode of up to 1 mv, together with several electrostatic quadrupole units to simultaneously focus. The world heavy ion fusion hif program for inertial fusion energy is looking toward the development and commissioning of several new experiments. The numerical simulation of the driving beams in a heavy ion fusion power plant is a challenging task, and simulation of the power plant as a whole, or even of the driver, is not yet possible. Heavy ion fusion injector program harvard university. I feel that i am in a small way repaying those from rutherford who have contributed so much to our us hif workshops. The platforms on which phits can be executed are windows, mac, linux, and unix. Nonuniformity smoothing of directdriven fuel target. In germany, heavy ion fusion studies for energy production were initiated in 1979, by the initiative of rudolf bock from gsi gesellschaft fuer schwerionenforschung, darmstadt, germany, within a governmentfunded research program and a focus on the linear acceleratorstorage ring concept. The goal of the entire program is to enable an informed decision about the promise of heavy ion fusion. To manage program growth, we have developed a new ife research plan and we have established a virtual national laboratory for heavy ion fusion. Heavy ion fusion science research for high energy density. A new family of models incorporating accelerating module impedance, multibeam, and selfmagnetic effects is described, and initial warp3d particle simulations of beams using these models are.
Another difficulty in the description of heavy ion fusion reactions occurs at energies far below the coulomb barrier, where the measured fusion cross sections fall off steeply with decreasing energy. The 2004 symposium is hosted by the princeton plasma physics laboratory, organized. Relativistic stable processes in quasiballistic heat conduction in semiconductors prakash chakraborty, bjorn vermeersch, ali shakouri, and samy tindel. Advance plasma science, fusion science, and fusion technology the knowledge base needed for an. Mesh refjnement for particleincell plasma simulations. Heavy ion induction accelerators are being developed as fusion drivers for icf power production in the us inertial fusion energy ife program, in the office of fusion energy of the us department of energy. For heavy ion collisions the fusion cross section can be determined by. An upgraded version of the particle and heavy ion transport code. Vmware fusion gives mac users the power to run windows on mac along with hundreds of other operating systems side by side with mac applications. It is a pleasure to be able to come to abingdon to help in this study of applications of the spallatron neutron source sns to problems of heavy ion fusion hif. Department of energy has established a new, larger inertial fusion energy ife program. In the scenarios of a heavy ion driven inertial fusion plant. Vmware fusion gives mac users the power to run windows on mac along with hundreds of other operating systems side by side with mac applications, without rebooting. The fall off is so steep in many cases that the s factor for fusion develops a maximum at low energy.