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Measurements of Laser-Driven Plasma Expansion into Hohlraum-Relevant Background Gas
S. Hilsabeck, S. Dannhoff, C. A. Walsh +3
Experiments at the OMEGA EP laser facility were designed and executed to study plasma expansion into hohlraum-relevant gas fills (0.3-0.6 mg/cc of helium), providing a surrogate pl…
Experiments conducted in the burning plasma regime with inertial fusion implosions
J. S. Ross, J. E. Ralph, A. B. Zylstra +149
An experimental program is currently underway at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to compress deuterium and tritium (DT) fuel to densities and temperatures sufficient to achiev…
Order of magnitude increase in laser-target coupling at near-relativistic intensities using compound parabolic concentrators
Gerald Jackson Williams, Anthony J. Link, Mark William Sherlock +20
Achieving a high conversion efficiency into relativistic electrons is central to short-pulse laser application and fundamentally relies on creating interaction regions with intensi…
Magnetic Field Transport in Propagating Thermonuclear Burn
B. Appelbe, A. L. Velikovich, M. Sherlock +4
High energy gain in inertial fusion schemes requires the propagation of a thermonuclear burn wave from hot to cold fuel. We consider the problem of burn propagation when a magnetic…
Electron acceleration in laser turbulence
Mark Sherlock
We demonstrate that electrons can be efficiently accelerated to high energy in spatially non-uniform, intense laser fields. Laser non-uniformities occur when a perfect plane wave r…
Influence of atomic kinetics on inverse Bremsstrahlung heating and non-local thermal transport
H. P. Le, M. Sherlock, H. A. Scott
This paper describes a computational model that self-consistently combines physics of kinetic electrons and atomic processes in a single framework. The formulation consists of a ki…