New method to detect size, timespan and flow in nanoplasmonic fusion

Abstract

The differential Hanbury-Brown and Twiss analysis is widely used in astrophysics and in relativistic heavy ion physics to determine the size and timespan of emitted particles. Here we propose to adopt theis method for laser induced nanoplasmonic inertial confinement fusion. The aim is to determine the parameters of emitted Deuterium and Helium$^4$ nuclei at the ignition of the fusion target. In addition of spatial volume and timespan the method is able to detect specific space-time correlation patterns, which are connected to collective flow at ignition