Design of a compact Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for diagnostics of proton-boron fusion reaction products initiated by laser

Abstract The proton-boron aneutronic fusion reaction has numerous potential applications varying from controlled nuclear reactor to broad-energy spectrum α-particle source, as well uses in medicine, where it can serve a source for radioisotope production, or directly proton boron capture therapy. However, and its by-products should be investigated extensively provide stable secondary ion source. In order monitor the multi-ion beam emitted accelerated target surface after interaction with laser pulses, new Thomson Parabola Spectrometer (TPS) been designed differentiate alpha traces energy ranges 0.5–5 MeV 1–10 respectively, high resolution (≤ 1%), while maintaining compactness of spectrometer (∼ 20 cm).