Sentences with phrase «heavy ion beams»

Those technologies include the «driver» used to crush the fuel capsule, such as lasers, heavy ion beams, or powerful pulses of electric current.

Not exact matches

Then, they'll fire beams of heavy ions such as uranium at the container until the water within is sweltering under temperatures thousands of degrees Kelvin and pressures of several million atmospheres.

Indeed, when the team collided a beam of nickel - 58 ions with a target made of a natural mixture of nickel isotopes at the National Heavy Ion Accelerator (GANIL) in Caen, France, the researchers managed to spot just two fleeting nickel - 48 nuclei.

After the initial nine - week part of the run, RHIC physicists will begin a series of experiments they've never done before — collisions of polarized protons in one beam with a beam of heavier ions (first gold, for about five weeks, then a shorter two - week run with aluminum).

Although future ADS systems will use protons beams and a heavy metal target to produce neutrons, Guinevere's neutron source — deuterium ions hitting a tritium target — is powerful enough to simulate how a bigger machine like Myrrha will behave, says Abderrahim.

The scientists aimed beams of heavy ions at targets of certain elements to produce nuclei with 75 neutrons and 55, 57, 59 or 61 protons in a wide range of spin states.

The team will then shoot beams of various neutron - rich ions at a plastic target full of deuterium, a heavy form of hydrogen in which the nucleus contains a proton and a neutron.

But the US team did not have access to a wide range of ion beams, such as those capable of probing the heaviest, most exotic atoms.

The use of intermediate size nuclei is expected to result in intermediate energy density - not as high as in earlier runs colliding two beams of gold ions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), but more than was produced by colliding a beam of gold ions with much lighter deuterons.

A heavy ion accelerator is a device that provides Rare Isotope Beams.