Inferences of mix in direct-drive spherical implosions with high uniformity

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Volumn 43, Issue 12A, 2001, Pages

  Meyerhofer, D D ^a,e   Delettrez, J A ^a   Epstein, R ^a   Glebov, V Yu ^a   Goncharov, V N ^a   Keck, R L ^a   McCrory, R L ^a   McKenty, P W ^a   Marshall, F J ^a   Radha, P B ^a   Regan, S P ^a   Roberts, S ^a   Seka, W ^a   Skupsky, S ^a   Smalyuk, V A ^a   Sorce, C ^a   Stoeckl, C ^a   Soures, J M ^a   Town, R P J ^a   Yaakobi, B ^a   Frenje, J A ^b   Li, C K ^b   Petrasso, R D ^a,b   Seguin F H ^b   Fletcher, K ^c   Padalino, S ^c   Freeman, C ^c   Izumi, N ^d   Lerche, R A ^d   Phillips, T W ^d   Sangster, T C ^a,d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT-DRIVE SPHERICAL IMPLOSIONS; FUEL AREAL DENSITY; LASER SYSTEM; LASER-DRIVEN CONFINEMENT FUSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER FUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; NEUTRONS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA DENSITY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS;

EID: 6444245226     PISSN: 07413335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/43/12A/321     Document Type: Article

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