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Progress in the shock-ignition inertial confinement fusion concept
- Source :
- EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 59, p 03001 (2013)
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- EDP Sciences, 2013.
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Abstract
- Shock-ignition experiments with peak laser intensities of ∼8 × 1015 W/cm2 were performed. D2 -filled plastic shells were compressed on a low adiabat by 40 of the 60 OMEGA beams. The remaining 20 beams were delayed and tightly focused onto the imploding shell to generate a strong shock. Up to 35% backscattering of laser energy was measured at the highest intensity. Hard x-ray measurements reveal a relatively low hot-electron temperature of ∼40 keV, independent of intensity and spike onset time.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Volume :
- 59
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- EPJ Web of Conferences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c9440ca20d22ecc5639b4ec5b7306f3b