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  "survey_date": "2026-08-21",
  "scope": "Public primary papers, government/intergovernmental data, standards, university theses, and official software repositories relevant to the release. No private or partner-controlled data were accessed.",
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    "sikora-weller-2016": {"type": "peer-reviewed article", "title": "A New Evaluation of the 11B(p,alpha)alpha alpha Reaction Rates", "identifier": "doi:10.1007/s10894-016-0069-y", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-016-0069-y", "role": "p–11B cross-section and rate source", "implementation_state": "transcribed source record present; independent reproduction pending"},
    "nevins-swain-2000": {"type": "peer-reviewed article", "title": "The thermonuclear fusion rate coefficient for p-11B reactions", "identifier": "doi:10.1088/0029-5515/40/4/310", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/40/4/310", "role": "Maxwellian reactivity comparison", "implementation_state": "referenced; coefficient review is source-specific"},
    "tentori-belloni-2023": {"type": "peer-reviewed article", "title": "Reactivity and bremsstrahlung calculations for proton–boron fusion", "identifier": "doi:10.1088/1741-4326/acda4b", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/acda4b", "role": "reactivity and radiation comparison", "implementation_state": "referenced; not promoted without reviewed coefficients"},
    "wang-2026-preprint": {"type": "preprint", "title": "p–11B cross-section parameterisation", "identifier": "arXiv:2601.00241", "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00241", "role": "non-default comparison source", "implementation_state": "disabled pending transcription and independent review"},
    "ame2020": {"type": "evaluated data", "title": "Atomic Mass Evaluation 2020", "identifier": "Chinese Physics C 45 030002/030003", "url": "https://www-nds.iaea.org/amdc/", "role": "p, 11B, and alpha mass records and covariance context", "implementation_state": "pinned mass records used"},
    "iaea-exfor": {"type": "intergovernmental experimental database", "title": "EXFOR Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data", "url": "https://www-nds.iaea.org/exfor/", "role": "reaction-specific experimental source discovery", "implementation_state": "accession-level curation required before promotion"},
    "nndc-nudat3": {"type": "government nuclear database", "title": "NuDat 3", "url": "https://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nudat3/", "role": "evaluated nuclear structure and decay context", "implementation_state": "reference and cross-check source"},
    "nist-astar": {"type": "government reference data", "title": "NIST ASTAR/PSTAR/ESTAR stopping-power and range tables", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/pml/stopping-power-range-tables-electrons-protons-and-helium-ions", "role": "charged-particle stopping/range context", "implementation_state": "reference only; no hidden detector calibration inferred"},
    "nrl-plasma-formulary": {"type": "government formulary", "title": "NRL Plasma Formulary", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/News-Media/Publications/nrl-plasma-formulary/", "role": "reduced plasma scaling context", "implementation_state": "illustrative non-relativistic scaling only"},
    "boris-qin-2013": {"type": "peer-reviewed article", "title": "Why is Boris algorithm so good?", "identifier": "doi:10.1063/1.4818428", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4818428", "role": "particle-pusher numerical context", "implementation_state": "analytic/refinement fixtures remain HBF-internal"},
    "lahmann-2020": {"type": "peer-reviewed article", "title": "CR-39 nuclear track detector response to inertial confinement fusion relevant ions", "identifier": "doi:10.1063/5.0004129", "url": "https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1801151", "role": "CR-39 response and calibration boundary", "implementation_state": "protocol basis; no source data treated as an HBF validation set"},
    "schollmeier-2023": {"type": "peer-reviewed article", "title": "Differentiating multi-MeV, multi-ion spectra with CR-39", "identifier": "doi:10.1038/s41598-023-45208-x", "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45208-x", "role": "multi-ion CR-39 analysis and calibration context", "implementation_state": "protocol basis only"},
    "fews-1992": {"type": "peer-reviewed article", "title": "Fully automated image analysis of etched tracks in CR-39", "identifier": "doi:10.1016/0168-583X(92)95367-Z", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-583X(92)95367-Z", "role": "image-analysis precedent", "implementation_state": "historical method context"},
    "barr-moir": {"type": "government technical report", "title": "A Review of Direct Energy Conversion for Fusion Reactors", "identifier": "OSTI:7341986", "url": "https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7341986", "role": "direct-conversion concepts and limitations", "implementation_state": "supporting source; HBF losses remain assumptions"},
    "rax-2025": {"type": "peer-reviewed article", "title": "Efficiency and Physical Limitations of Adiabatic Direct Energy Conversion", "identifier": "doi:10.1103/PRXEnergy.4.013007", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXEnergy.4.013007", "role": "physical efficiency-limit context", "implementation_state": "supporting source; no hardware validation"},
    "player-2024-thesis": {"type": "doctoral dissertation", "title": "Orbit Space Analysis of Resonant Beam-Driven Ion Acceleration", "url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r11w74x", "role": "orbit-space and beam-driven ion-acceleration context", "implementation_state": "research context; not a benchmark target"},
    "nicks-2020-thesis": {"type": "doctoral dissertation", "title": "Novel Avenues of Wakefield Acceleration: Fusion Plasmas and Cancer Therapy", "author": "Bradley Scott Nicks Jr.", "year": 2020, "url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0v88226r", "role": "p–11B plasma analogy and scope cautions", "implementation_state": "research context; not implemented"},
    "jerkins-2021-thesis": {"type": "undergraduate thesis", "title": "Fusion Fuels", "author": "Joseph Jerkins", "year": 2021, "url": "https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/143405", "role": "alternative-fuel radiation and activation context", "implementation_state": "risk context; not implemented"},
    "freegs": {"type": "official software repository", "title": "FreeGS", "url": "https://github.com/freegs-plasma/freegs", "role": "Grad–Shafranov equilibrium reference implementation", "implementation_state": "not bundled; named to clarify what Torus Orbit does not solve"},
    "desc": {"type": "official software repository", "title": "DESC", "url": "https://github.com/PlasmaControl/DESC", "role": "equilibrium/optimization reference software", "implementation_state": "not bundled; potential independent comparison requires a frozen mathematical problem"},
    "stellopt": {"type": "official software repository", "title": "STELLOPT", "url": "https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/STELLOPT", "role": "stellarator equilibrium/optimization software context", "implementation_state": "not bundled"}
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