Tuning the implosion symmetry of ICF targets via controlled crossed-beam energy transfer

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Michel, P ^a   Divol, L ^a   Williams, E A ^a   Weber, S ^a   Thomas, C A ^a   Callahan, D A ^a   Haan, S W ^a   Salmonson, J D ^a   Dixit, S ^a   Hinkel, D E ^a   Edwards, M J ^a   MacGowan, B J ^a   Lindl, J D ^a   Glenzer, S H ^a   Suter, L J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPLOSIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUNING;

BEAM ENERGY TRANSFERS; CROSSING LASER BEAMS; HYDRODYNAMICS CODES; HYDRODYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ICF TARGETS; IGNITION HOHLRAUMS; IMPLOSION SYMMETRIES; MULTIPLE LASERS; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; WAVELENGTH SEPARATIONS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 59149097523     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.025004     Document Type: Article

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