Research Article
Investigation of Proton Beam-Driven Fusion Reactions Generated by an Ultra-Short Petawatt-Scale Laser Pulse
Table 3
Reaction product yields per primary projectile in BN and expected yields for the BN nanotube 1ω spectrum.
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The ion densities are calculated assuming the BN plate (density of 2.1 g/cm3) contains ∼95% BN and ∼5% oxygen contamination. The natural boron consists of 80%11B and 20%10B. Of the natural oxygen, the 18O isotope is about 0.2% abundant. N2 is given per shot per J of laser energy. |