Hydrodynamic efficiency of energy transfer in experimental targets illuminated with heavy-ion beams

The conditions for an experiment are being discussed in which the hydrodynamic efficiency could be measured and an optimum thermonuclear target design worked out that could be performed on a single-channel accelerator facility producing a 209Bi ion beam of ∼ 100 GeV per nucleus. As numerical simulations show, the expected values of the hydrodynamic efficiency are 5-10%, while the optimization of the target-beam system could be performed by compressing D-T gas in a conical cavity and registering some 109-1011 neutrons per shot. (Author)