Ion beam plasma interaction with respect to High Energy Density Science and relevance to energy from nuclear fusion - Proton Boron Fusion revisited

High intensity particle accelerators like FAIR at GSI Darmstadt and the proposed HIAF facility in China are a new tools to induce High Energy Density states in matter. We will give an account of High Energy Density Physics with aspects of inertial fusion energy and due to recent developments we will address Proton-11Boron fusion. We report about energy loss of ions in plasma. An experiment at low energy demonstrates the importance of excited projectile states in the stopping process. Moreover we will discuss first experimental evidence on anomalous stopping and significantly enhanced stopping power (by one order of magnitude) of dense ionized matter interacting with a high-current laser-generated proton beam