Photon and Neutron Production as In Situ Diagnostics of Proton-Boron Fusion

Table 1

Primary reactions in the range of proton energies. The range of CoM energy for which data are available as well as the maximum cross-section and its CoM energy are given for numerical comparison. All data retried from sources in the EXFOR and JANIS databases, with the exception of for which we use the concordant normalization of Reference [22].

Reaction	(MeV)	(b)	(MeV)	Data range (MeV)
	8.59, 5.65, 8.68	0.8	0.6
		0.01	1.0
		0.4	7
	15.9		14
	1.147	0.5	5.0
		0.004	8
	8.69	0.0003	6
		0.29	7
		0.01	9.5

values marked with an are computed from the mass difference of the initial and final states. Others are from the literature. A recent measurement [23] finds larger cross-section than several previous measurements. To be conservative, we quote the older but more consistent results here. There appear two distinct groups of cross-sections measurements: two experiments find the cross-section roughly larger than the majority of others.