I’ve been following aneutronic fusion for a while now.
Adding a proton to Boron eleven can get the described result of three energetic alpha particles, but getting the proton up to the required speed has been a challenge.
Boron comes in two flavors, Boron eleven and Boron ten. Boron ten has a hunger for a loose neutron and makes good shielding material, capturing the neutron and promoting itself into Boron eleven.
Boron eleven then has a hunger for a loose proton, capturing such if possible and “fusing” into carbon as described, which then gloriously disintegrates into three, (count them), alpha particles (Helium nuclei), which have tremendous momentum controllable by magnetic fields.
One problem with its being “aneutronic” however, is that a portion of the reactions, I think less than one percent, can actually spill out a neutron, which then of course gets a little messy.
There is evidence that the next step up the alpha particle assembly ladder, an isotope of nitrogen, may be able to be a bit more stable as it disintegrates into FOUR alpha particles with the addition of a single proton.
The Nitrogen isotope is somewhat rare, but Nitrogen is not.
Fusion, especially aneutronic fusion, could be very useful. Let me know how your research turns out.
Sounds like a ‘combo’ of Boron, Helium and Nitrogen is needed..................