Overview of Recent Tritium Target Filling, Layering, and Material Testing at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Support of Inertial Fusion Experiments

Autor: J. J. Sanchez, W. T. Shmayda, Arthur Nobile, Drew Geller, Peter S. Ebey, John Morris, Jon R. Schoonover, S. A. Letts, John D. Sheliak, Mark Bonino, Abbas Nikroo, James M. Dole, James K. Hoffer, Craig Sangster, Bob Cook, Doug Wilson, D. R. Harding, John Burmann

Publikováno v: Fusion Science and Technology. 54:375-378

The Tritium Science and Engineering (AET-3) Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) performs a variety of activities to support Inertial Fusion (IF) research - both to further fundamental fusion science and to develop technologies in support o

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https://doi.org/10.13182/fst08-a1834

Electron, photon, and ion beams from the relativistic interaction of Petawatt laser pulses with solid targets

Autor: Stephen P. Hatchett, Michael H. Key, A. Bruce Langdon, K. Yasuike, Thomas E. Cowan, Joy S. Johnson, Scott Wilks, Deanna Marie Pennington, Markus Roth, M. A. Stoyer, M. S. Singh, A. J. Mackinnon, Michael D. Perry, Jeffrey A. Koch, T. W. Phillips, T. Craig Sangster, Richard W. Lee, R. A. Snavely, Eugene A. Henry, Curtis G. Brown, Barbara F. Lasinski

Publikováno v: Physics of Plasmas. 7:2076-2082

In recent Petawatt laser experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, several hundred joules of 1 μm laser light in 0.5–5.0-ps pulses with intensities up to 3×1020 W cm−2 were incident on solid targets and produced a strongly relativi

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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.874030

Assembly of High-Areal-Density Deuterium-Tritium Fuel from Indirectly Driven Cryogenic Implosions

Autor: E. Giraldez, K. N. La Fortune, Mark W. Bowers, David R. Farley, Steve Glenn, W. H. Courdin, C. A. Thomas, P. S. Datte, K. M. Knittel, B. Haid, C. Stoeckl, K. Moreno, James Knauer, Edward I. Moses, S. W. Haan, N. Guler, J. J. Klingman, P. M. Celliers, P. T. Springer, B. J. Kozioziemski, H. F. Robey, J. D. Sater, A. J. MacKinnon, S. Weaver, N. E. Palmer, R. Bionta, M. A. Barrios, S. G. Brass, L. V. Berzins, Gordon A. Chandler, G. Frieders, Chris Haynam, E. P. Hartouni, Gary Wayne Cooper, G. N. McHalle, Marilyn Schneider, Chimpén Ruiz, Abbas Nikroo, R. J. Fortner, Hans Rinderknecht, Joseph Ralph, N. Simanovskaia, Michael J. Moran, S. J. Cohen, Pierre Michel, R. J. Leeper, Ogden Jones, G. LaCaille, T. G. Parham, R. Benedetti, R. P. J. Town, Eduard Dewald, P. Di Nicola, D. H. Munro, S. C. Burkhart, L. J. Atherton, Maria Gatu Johnson, R. W. Patterson, Hans W. Herrmann, A. Zylestra, Mahalia Jackson, John Lindl, David K. Bradley, Steven Weber, E. S. Palma, James McNaney, John Kline, M. J. Shaw, S. N. Dixit, T. A. Land, Daniel Casey, Gilbert Collins, P. W. McKenty, Paul J. Wegner, Brian Spears, C. Marshall, K. Widmann, D. G. Mathisen, Vladimir Glebov, R. E. Olson, Alex V. Hamza, R. F. Burr, Frank E. Merrill, Owen B. Drury, M. Hermann, Sean Regan, Rebecca Dylla-Spears, C. Clay Widmayer, Nathan Meezan, J. R. Kimbrough, G. Heestand, R. K. Kirkwood, Daniel Clark, R. Saunders, B.M. VanWonterghem, R. Lowe-Webb, K.S. Jancaitis, Perry M. Bell, Pamela K. Whitman, J. A. Caggiano, Damien Hicks, Charles Cerjan, R. J. Wallace, B. K. Young, P. A. Arnold, R. Tommasini, Robert L. Kauffman, A. G. Nelson, E. J. Bond, Alastair Moore, J. R. Cox, Steven H. Batha, Siegfried Glenzer, Bruce Hammel, J Eggert, B. Felker, Laurent Divol, D. A. Callahan, R. B. Ehrlich, Andrew MacPhee, Johan Frenje, D. H. Schneider, Evan Mapoles, Charles D. Orth, R. Prasad, Jose Milovich, K. G. Krauter, G. Gururangan, R. D. Wood, R. C. Ashabranner, E. G. Dzenitis, G. W. Krauter, John M. Dzenitis, J. P. Holder, Prav Patel, B. J. MacGowan, D. N. Fittinghoff, L. J. Lagin, Nobuhiko Izumi, J. M. Dinicola, D. L. Blueuel, Stephan Friedrich, G. Ross, D. H. Edgell, C. F. Walters, James E. Fair, J. D. Kilkenny, Craig Sangster, John Moody, Mary Sue Richardson, R. A. Zacharias, Robert Hatarik, D. Latray, David C. Eder, O. L. Landen, M. J. Eckart, T. Kohut, R. D. Petrasso, J. D. Salmonsen, G. A. Kyrala, Gary Grim, K. D. Hahn, Steve Hatchett, T. Ma, Suhas Bhandarkar, Wolfgang Stoeffl, G Brunton, L. J. Suter, Thomas Boehly, L. A. Bernstein, M. J. Edwards, Tilo Döppner, David Larson, S. Lepape, Dan Kalantar, G. Erbert, Doug Wilson

Publikováno v: Physical Review Letters. 108

The National Ignition Facility has been used to compress deuterium-tritium to an average areal density of ~1.0±0.1 g cm(-2), which is 67% of the ignition requirement. These conditions were obtained using 192 laser beams with total energy of 1-1.6 MJ

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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.108.215005

Approximate models for the ion-kinetic regime in inertial-confinement-fusion capsule implosions

Autor: Gowri Srinivasan, W. Seka, Maria Gatu Johnson, George B. Zimmerman, Christian Stoeckl, Michael Rosenberg, Brian J. Albright, David Higdon, K. Molvig, Hong Sio, Vladimir Glebov, T. Craig Sangster, Fredrick Seguin, Chikang Li, Alex Zylstra, Nelson M. Hoffman, R. D. Petrasso, Hans Rinderknecht, Johan Frenje, Andrei N. Simakov

Publikováno v: Physics of Plasmas. 22:052707

“Reduced” (i.e., simplified or approximate) ion-kinetic (RIK) models in radiation-hydrodynamic simulations permit a useful description of inertial-confinement-fusion (ICF) implosions where kinetic deviations from hydrodynamic behavior are importa

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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4921130

First implosion experiments with cryogenic thermonuclear fuel on the National Ignition Facility

Autor: Glenn M Heestand, E. M. Giraldez, B. J. Kozioziemski, Bruno M. Van Wonterghem, Tilo Döppner, Nathan Meezan, Robert Heeter, Edward I. Moses, F. H. Séguin, Andrew MacPhee, P. T. Springer, E. G. Dzenitis, Milton J. Shoup, Siegfried Glenzer, Daniel H. Kalantar, S. V. Weber, D. L. Bleuel, Bryan R Nathan, J. D. Kilkenny, E T Alger, Brian Spears, Tammy Ma, J. B. Horner, H. Huang, Craig Sangster, T. G. Parham, S. N. Dixit, S. W. Haan, Harry Robey, Douglas W Larson, R. D. Petrasso, Bruce Hammel, L Jeff Atherton, B. J. MacGowan, Pascale Di Nicola, Richard Town, K. N. LaFortune, Daniel S. Clark, Debra Callahan, C. A. Haynam, Richard E. Olson, Jeremy Kroll, Jim Sater, M. Gatu Johnson, C. Clay Widmayer, Daniel Casey, K. A. Moreno, Hans Rinderknecht, Joseph Ralph, Nobuhiko Izumi, Pamela K. Whitman, Douglas Wilson, A. J. Mackinnon, M. John Edwards, Marilyn Schneider, Otto Landen, Eduard Dewald, Christine Choate, David Bradley, Damien Hicks, Andrea Kritcher, Charles Cerjan, Vladimir Glebov, John Moody, Sean Regan, John Kline, Dean M Holunga, Michael J Shaw, Cliff Thomas, S. M. Glenn, Larry Suter, Lars Johan Anders Frenje, Rebecca Dylla-Spears, J. Steven Ross, J. A. Caggiano, J. D. Lindl, Jay D. Salmonson, R. J. Leeper, Jean-Michel G. Di Nicola, Mike Moran, Hans W. Herrmann, R. K. Kirkwood, Arthur Pak, George A. Kyrala, Wolfgang Stoeffl, Jose Milovich, Gilbert Collins, P. W. McKenty, Paul J. Wegner, C. F. Walters, James E. Fair, Carlos E. Castro, Ogden Jones, Stephen P. Hatchett, Sebastien Le Pape, Laurent Divol, Abbas Nikroo, Alastair Moore, Evan Mapoles, Charles D. Orth, James Knauer, Klaus Widmann, Pierre Michel, Richard Berger, P. K. Patel, D. H. Munro

Publikováno v: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 54:045013

Non-burning thermonuclear fuel implosion experiments have been fielded on the National Ignition Facility to assess progress toward ignition by indirect drive inertial confinement fusion. These experiments use cryogenic fuel ice layers, consisting of

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