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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zylstra, A B
• Kritcher, A L
• Hurricane, O A
• Callahan, D A
• Baker, K
• Braun, T
• Casey, D T
• Clark, D
• Clark, K
• Döppner, T
• Divol, L
• Hinkel, D E
• Hohenberger, M
• Kong, C
• Landen, O L
• Nikroo, A
• Pak, A
• Patel, P
• Ralph, J E
• Rice, N
• Tommasini, R
• Schoff, M
• Stadermann, M
• Strozzi, D
• Weber, C
• Young, C
• Wild, C
• Town, R P J
• Edwards, M J

Titel

Record Energetics for an Inertial Fusion Implosion at NIF

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2021-01, Vol.126 (2), p.025001-025001, Article 025001

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Inertial confinement fusion seeks to create burning plasma conditions in a spherical capsule implosion, which requires efficiently absorbing the driver energy in the capsule, transferring that energy into kinetic energy of the imploding DT fuel and then into internal energy of the fuel at stagnation. We report new implosions conducted on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) with several improvements on recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 245003 (2018)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.120.245003; Phys. Rev. E 102, 023210 (2020)PRESCM2470-004510.1103/PhysRevE.102.023210]: larger capsules, thicker fuel layers to mitigate fuel-ablator mix, and new symmetry control via cross-beam energy transfer; at modest velocities, these experiments achieve record values for the implosion energetics figures of merit as well as fusion yield for a NIF experiment.