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The high velocity, high adiabat, “Bigfoot” campaign and tests of indirect-drive implosion scaling.
- Source :
- Physics of Plasmas; May2018, Vol. 25 Issue 5, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 12p, 2 Diagrams, 1 Chart, 10 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The Bigfoot approach is to intentionally trade off high convergence, and therefore areal-density, in favor of high implosion velocity and good coupling between the laser, hohlraum, shell, and hotspot. This results in a short laser pulse that improves hohlraum symmetry and predictability, while the reduced compression reduces hydrodynamic instability growth. The results thus far include demonstrated low-mode symmetry control at two different hohlraum geometries (5.75 mm and 5.4 mm diameters) and at two different target scales (5.4 mm and 6.0 mm hohlraum diameters) spanning 300–405 TW in laser power and 0.8–1.6 MJ in laser energy. Additionally, by carefully scaling the 5.4 mm design to 6.0 mm, an increase in target scale of 13%, equivalent to 40% increase in laser energy, has been demonstrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ADIABATIC flow
HYDRODYNAMICS
SYMMETRY breaking
LASER pulses
LASER plasmas
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1070664X
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Physics of Plasmas
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 130035927
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5019741