1. Planar Wire-Array Z-Pinch Implosion Dynamics and X-Ray Scaling at Multiple-MA Drive Currents for a Compact Multisource Hohlraum Configuration
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Brent Manley Jones, Michael Edward Cuneo, Marcelino Patricio Vigil, Leonid Rudakov, Jason D. Serrano, Eduardo Waisman, Roger Alan Vesey, Christine Anne Coverdale, Alla S. Safronova, K.M. Williamson, William E. Fowler, William A. Stygar, D. J. Ampleford, M. C. Jones, Andrey Esaulov, V.L. Kantsyrev, Alexandre S. Chuvatin, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Physics ,business.industry ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Implosion ,Kinetic energy ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Electromagnetic radiation ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,Power (physics) ,Planar ,Optics ,Hohlraum ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-PLASM-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Plasma Physics [physics.plasm-ph] ,Z-pinch ,0103 physical sciences ,010306 general physics ,business ,Scaling - Abstract
International audience; An indirect drive configuration is proposed wherein multiple compact Z-pinch x-ray sources surround a secondary hohlraum. Planar compact wire arrays allow reduced primary hohlraum surface area compared to cylindrical loads. Implosions of planar arrays are studied at up to 15 TW x-ray power on Saturn with radiated yields exceeding the calculated kinetic energy, suggesting other heating paths. X-ray power and yield scaling studied from 16 MA motivates viewfactor modeling of four 6-MA planar arrays producing 90 eV radiation temperature in a secondary hohlraum.
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- 2010