Experimental studies of the advanced fast ignitor scheme
Abstract
Guided compression offers an attractive route to explore some of the physics issues of hot electron heating and transport in the fast ignition route to inertial confinement fusion, whilst avoiding the difficulties associated with establishing the stability of the channel formation pulse. X-ray images are presented that show that the guided foil remains hydrodynamically stable during the acceleration phase, which is confirmed by two-dimensional simulations. An integrated conical compression/fast electron heating experiment is presented that confirms that this approach deserves detailed study.
- Publication:
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Physics of Plasmas
- Pub Date:
- September 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1287419
- Bibcode:
- 2000PhPl....7.3721N
- Keywords:
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- 28.52.Cx;
- 52.25.Fi;
- 52.50.Gj;
- 52.70.La;
- 52.65.-y;
- Fueling heating and ignition;
- Transport properties;
- Plasma heating by particle beams;
- X-ray and gamma-ray measurements;
- Plasma simulation