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Analysis of trends in experimental observables: Reconstruction of the implosion dynamics and implications for fusion yield extrapolation for direct-drive cryogenic targets on OMEGA

Authors :
A. Bose
A. R. Christopherson
V. Yu. Glebov
D. Patel
D. H. Edgell
E. M. Campbell
Dov Shvarts
F. J. Marshall
M. Gatu Johnson
Johan Frenje
R. C. Shah
J. P. Knauer
Igor V. Igumenshchev
T. C. Sangster
W. Theobald
V. Gopalaswamy
Christian Stoeckl
P. B. Radha
K. M. Woo
Chad Forrest
Owen Mannion
D. Mangino
Riccardo Betti
Susan Regan
V. N. Goncharov
Source :
Physics of Plasmas. 25:062701
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
AIP Publishing, 2018.

Abstract

This paper describes a technique for identifying trends in performance degradation for inertial confinement fusion implosion experiments. It is based on reconstruction of the implosion core with a combination of low- and mid-mode asymmetries. This technique was applied to an ensemble of hydro-equivalent deuterium–tritium implosions on OMEGA which achieved inferred hot-spot pressures ≈56 ± 7 Gbar [Regan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 025001 (2016)]. All the experimental observables pertaining to the core could be reconstructed simultaneously with the same combination of low and mid-modes. This suggests that in addition to low modes, which can cause a degradation of the stagnation pressure, mid-modes are present which reduce the size of the neutron and x-ray producing volume. The systematic analysis shows that asymmetries can cause an overestimation of the total areal density in these implosions. It is also found that an improvement in implosion symmetry resulting from correction of either the systematic mid or low modes would result in an increase in the hot-spot pressure from 56 Gbar to ≈ 80 Gbar and could produce a burning plasma when the implosion core is extrapolated to an equivalent 1.9 MJ symmetric direct illumination [Bose et al., Phys. Rev. E 94, 011201(R) (2016)].

Details

ISSN :
10897674 and 1070664X
Volume :
25
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physics of Plasmas
Accession number :
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