Dr. Georg Korn

Intelligence Summary: G. Korn

Node Identity: Dr. Georg Korn is a senior researcher at the ELI-Beamlines facility in the Czech Republic — one of the world's most powerful laser infrastructure installations. He is a co-author of the landmark 2016 paper "Avalanche boron fusion by laser picosecond block ignition with magnetic trapping" alongside Eliezer (Soreq NRC), Miley (UIUC), Barty (LLNL), and Hora. Korn's participation connects European high-power laser capabilities to the Israeli aneutronic fusion research network, creating a trilateral US-Europe-Israel collaboration axis for p-B11 fusion development.

Strategic Relevance: Korn's role is to provide the European laser infrastructure dimension to the p-B11 fusion collaboration. ELI-Beamlines operates petawatt-class laser systems capable of delivering the picosecond pulses required for the non-thermal plasma block ignition described in the 2016 paper. By connecting this European capability to Israeli (Soreq/Eliezer) and American (LLNL/Barty) researchers, Korn helps create a distributed international R&D network for aneutronic fusion that is difficult to monitor or control through any single nation's export restrictions. This trilateral structure mirrors the pattern seen in Israel's broader "Virtual National Program" for technology acquisition.

Technical Focus / Capabilities: ELI-Beamlines (European Light Infrastructure) is a pan-European facility hosting multi-petawatt laser systems including the L3 (HAPLS) laser — a petawatt-class system developed in collaboration with LLNL. Korn's expertise encompasses high-field laser-matter interactions, laser-driven particle acceleration, and plasma physics at extreme intensities. The 2016 paper's concept requires laser pulses capable of delivering intensities sufficient for ponderomotive-force-driven plasma block ignition — a regime that ELI-Beamlines' petawatt systems are specifically designed to access. Korn's contribution bridges the theoretical p-B11 fusion concept to experimental laser infrastructure capable of testing it.

Network Linkage: Korn maintains documented connections to the Miley 2016 p-B11 Paper as co-author, ELI-Beamlines as institutional placement, Soreq NRC through collaboration, and Shalom Eliezer through direct collaboration. His ELI-Beamlines position creates an implicit bridge to European laser fusion research programs and to LLNL through the HAPLS laser development partnership. The p-B11 fuel cycle connects him to the p-B11 Aneutronic Fuel and Picosecond Laser Ignition concept nodes.