Core conditions for alpha heating attained in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion

It is shown that direct-drive implosions on the OMEGA laser have achieved core conditions that would lead to significant alpha heating at incident energies available on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) scale. The extrapolation of the experimental results from OMEGA to NIF energy assumes only tha...

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Main Authors: Bose, A., Woo, K. M., Betti, R., Campbell, E. M., Mangino, D., Christopherson, A. R., McCrory, R. L., Nora, R., Regan, S. P., Goncharov, V. N., Sangster, T. C., Forrest, C. J., Glebov, V. Yu, Knauer, J. P., Marshall, F. J., Stoeckl, C., Theobald, W., Frenje, Johan A, Gatu Johnson, Maria
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110486