Intermittent lon Trajectories and Focusing in Spherical Inertial Electromagnetic Confinement

Performance of spherical magnetic electrostatic confinement fusion is analyzed. Magnetic field lines in spherical cusps provide a chaotic scattering system that improves the ion focusing due to synergetic effect of intermittent ion trajectories. Confined ions are bounced within electrostatic well reflecting from magnetic barriers shaped by convex field lines. The concept offers a means of enhancing ion reactivity provided by caustic formation that are resulted from an intersection of ion orbits within confinement volume. Parameters of the experimental device are estimated. Keywords: magnetic inertial electrostatic confinement fusion, neutron source, spherical ion convergent flow, ion focus 1