Plasma simulations are often rendered challenging by the disparity of scales in time and in space which must be resolved. When these disparities are in distinctive zones of the simulation domain, a method which has proven to be effective in other areas ~e.g., fluid dynamics simulations! is the mesh refinement technique. A brief discussion of the challenges posed by coupling this technique with ...

Approaches in Europe to heavy ion induced Inertial Confinement Fusion are oriented toward the linac-plusstorage ring technique. Despite the very limited support of this work, technical progress was achieved in some important areas. For the immediate future, a substantial intensity upgrade of the GSI accelerator facilities at Darmstadt is being implemented, leading to specific energy depositions...

A heavy ion fusion (HIF) system, named HIBLIC (Heavy Ion Beam and Lithium Curtain) is conceptually designed. The driver system consists of RF linacs (RFQ linacs, IH linacs and Alvarez linacs), storage rings (one accumulator ring and three buncher rings) and beam transport lines with induction beam compressors. This accelerator complex provides 6 beams of 15 GeVPb ions to be focused simultaneous...

The use of heavy ions beams with mass of order 100 atomic mass units and energy of order 10 MeV per nucleon has been proposed as a driver for heavy ion fusion. Multi-electron-loss collisions of the beam ions with the background gas atoms result in an increase in the ion charge, which is an unwanted effect for beam propagation through the accelerator and transport regions, and the target chamber...

The method of equivalent quanta is applied both to photon-photon and, by analogy, to double pomeron exchange in heavy-ion collisions. This WeizsäckerWilliams approach is used to calculate production cross sections for the glueball candidate fJ(1710) meson via photon-photon and pomeron-pomeron fusion in peripheral heavy-ion collisions at both RHIC and LHC energies. The impact-parameter dependenc...