Progress toward a unified kJ-machine CANDY
Abstract
To construct a unified experimental machine CANDY using a kJ DPSSL driver in the fast-ignition scheme, the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiment (LFEX) at Osaka is used, showing that the laser-driven ions heat the preimploded core of a deuterated polystyrene (CD) shell target from 0.8 keV to 2 keV, resulting in 5 x 108 DD neutrons best ever obtained in the scheme. 4-J/10-Hz DPSSL laser HAMA is for the first time applied to the CD shell implosion- core heating experiments in the fast ignition scheme to yield neutrons and also to a continuous target injection, which yields neutrons of 3 x 105 n/4πsr n/shot.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Conference Series
- Pub Date:
- March 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1742-6596/688/1/012049
- Bibcode:
- 2016JPhCS.688a2049K