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. 2021 Jan 15;126(2):025001.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.025001.

Record Energetics for an Inertial Fusion Implosion at NIF

A B Zylstra  1 , A L Kritcher  1 , O A Hurricane  1 , D A Callahan  1 , K Baker  1 , T Braun  1 , D T Casey  1 , D Clark  1 , K Clark  2 , T Döppner  1 , L Divol  1 , D E Hinkel  1 , M Hohenberger  1 , C Kong  2 , O L Landen  1 , A Nikroo  1 , A Pak  1 , P Patel  1 , J E Ralph  1 , N Rice  2 , R Tommasini  1 , M Schoff  2 , M Stadermann  1 , D Strozzi  1 , C Weber  1 , C Young  1 , C Wild  3 , R P J Town  1 , M J Edwards  1
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Record Energetics for an Inertial Fusion Implosion at NIF

A B Zylstra et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

Abstract

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.

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