The United States' program in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is described in this paper, with emphasis on the studies of the use of intense high energy beams of heavy ions to provide the power and energy nkeded to initiate thermonuclear burn. Preliminary calculations of the transport of intense ion beams in an electrostatic quadrupole focussing structure are discussed. In a companion paper i...

Two actinide isotopes, $^{241}$Am and $^{244}$Cm, produced chemically purified by the HFIR/REDC complex at ORNL are candidates for target materials of heavy-ion fusion reaction experiments synthesis new superheavy elements (SHEs) with $Z>118$. In framework dinuclear system model a dynamical potential energy surface (DNS-DyPES model), we systematically study $^{48}$Ca-induced reactions that have...

We study exclusive $\pi^+ \pi^-$ pair production near $\rho^0$ resonance peak in ultraperipheral heavy ion collisions. Pion can either be produced via two photon fusion process or from the decay of photon-nuclear reaction. At very low transverse momentum, electromagnetic and nuclear amplitudes become comparable. show that Coulomb interference amplitude gives rise to sizable $\cos \phi$ 3\phi$ a...