Research Article

Oscillating Plasmas for Proton- Boron Fusion in Miniature Vacuum Discharge

Figure 2

(a) The field of virtual cathode (or potential well) for U = 100 kV with a front ∆tf = 1 ns and (b) the energy of the isolated groups of boron ions (ZB = +3, index (y)) and protons (index (r)) during their oscillations in the potential well on time (for Uexp ≈ 100 kV with ∆tf ≈ 2 ns).
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