Self-colliding beams as an alternative fusion system

Recent experiments with TFTR, D-III-D and JET involve the injection and trapping of low density beams of high energy large orbit ions. These experiments proved that large orbit non-adiabatic ions slow down and diffuse classically in the presence of anomalous fluctuations and transport of the majority particles which were adiabatic. Accordingly, we consider fusion reactors based on classical confinement of fuel ions and fusion products. The analysis begins with equilibrium solutions of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations 1 and proceeds through considerations of stability, classical transport, ignition, beam extraction and direct conversion.