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. 2012 May 25;108(21):215005.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.215005. Epub 2012 May 24.

Assembly of high-areal-density deuterium-tritium fuel from indirectly driven cryogenic implosions

A J Mackinnon  1 , J L Kline, S N Dixit, S H Glenzer, M J Edwards, D A Callahan, N B Meezan, S W Haan, J D Kilkenny, T Döppner, D R Farley, J D Moody, J E Ralph, B J MacGowan, O L Landen, H F Robey, T R Boehly, P M Celliers, J H Eggert, K Krauter, G Frieders, G F Ross, D G Hicks, R E Olson, S V Weber, B K Spears, J D Salmonsen, P Michel, L Divol, B Hammel, C A Thomas, D S Clark, O S Jones, P T Springer, C J Cerjan, G W Collins, V Y Glebov, J P Knauer, C Sangster, C Stoeckl, P McKenty, J M McNaney, R J Leeper, C L Ruiz, G W Cooper, A G Nelson, G G A Chandler, K D Hahn, M J Moran, M B Schneider, N E Palmer, R M Bionta, E P Hartouni, S LePape, P K Patel, N Izumi, R Tommasini, E J Bond, J A Caggiano, R Hatarik, G P Grim, F E Merrill, D N Fittinghoff, N Guler, O Drury, D C Wilson, H W Herrmann, W Stoeffl, D T Casey, M G Johnson, J A Frenje, R D Petrasso, A Zylestra, H Rinderknecht, D H Kalantar, J M Dzenitis, P Di Nicola, D C Eder, W H Courdin, G Gururangan, S C Burkhart, S Friedrich, D L Blueuel, L A Bernstein, M J Eckart, D H Munro, S P Hatchett, A G Macphee, D H Edgell, D K Bradley, P M Bell, S M Glenn, N Simanovskaia, M A Barrios, R Benedetti, G A Kyrala, R P J Town, E L Dewald, J L Milovich, K Widmann, A S Moore, G LaCaille, S P Regan, L J Suter, B Felker, R C Ashabranner, M C Jackson, R Prasad, M J Richardson, T R Kohut, P S Datte, G W Krauter, J J Klingman, R F Burr, T A Land, M R Hermann, D A Latray, R L Saunders, S Weaver, S J Cohen, L Berzins, S G Brass, E S Palma, R R Lowe-Webb, G N McHalle, P A Arnold, L J Lagin, C D Marshall, G K Brunton, D G Mathisen, R D Wood, J R Cox, R B Ehrlich, K M Knittel, M W Bowers, R A Zacharias, B K Young, J P Holder, J R Kimbrough, T Ma, K N La Fortune, C C Widmayer, M J Shaw, G V Erbert, K S Jancaitis, J M DiNicola, C Orth, G Heestand, R Kirkwood, C Haynam, P J Wegner, P K Whitman, A Hamza, E G Dzenitis, R J Wallace, S D Bhandarkar, T G Parham, R Dylla-Spears, E R Mapoles, B J Kozioziemski, J D Sater, C F Walters, B J Haid, J Fair, A Nikroo, E Giraldez, K Moreno, B Vanwonterghem, R L Kauffman, S Batha, D W Larson, R J Fortner, D H Schneider, J D Lindl, R W Patterson, L J Atherton, E I Moses
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Assembly of high-areal-density deuterium-tritium fuel from indirectly driven cryogenic implosions

A J Mackinnon et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

Abstract

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 and peak power up to 420 TW to create a hohlraum drive with a shaped power profile, peaking at a soft x-ray radiation temperature of 275-300 eV. This pulse delivered a series of shocks that compressed a capsule containing cryogenic deuterium-tritium to a radius of 25-35 μm. Neutron images of the implosion were used to estimate a fuel density of 500-800 g cm(-3).

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