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Improved Ion Heating in Fast Ignition by Pulse Shaping
Henry Fetsch, Nathaniel J. Fisch
The fast ignition paradigm for inertial fusion offers increased gain and tolerance of asymmetry by compressing fuel at low entropy and then quickly igniting a small region. Because…
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Fast Correlation Heating in Moderately Coupled Electron-Ion Plasmas
Thomas E. Foster, Henry Fetsch, Nathaniel J. Fisch
If the electrons in a plasma are suddenly heated, the resulting change in Debye shielding causes the ion kinetic energy to quickly increase. For the first time, this correlation he…
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Temperature separation under compression of moderately-coupled plasma
H. Fetsch, T. E. Foster, N. J. Fisch
In moderately-coupled plasmas, a significant fraction of the internal energy resides in electric fields. As these plasmas are heated or compressed, the shifting partition of energy…