Anomalous yield reduction in direct-drive deuterium/tritium implosions due to 3He addition

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Herrmann, H W ^a   Langenbrunner, J R ^a   MacK, J M ^a   Cooley, J H ^a   Wilson, D C ^a   Evans, S C ^a   Sedillo, T J ^a   Kyrala, G A ^a   Caldwell, S E ^a   Young, C S ^a   Nobile, A ^a   Wermer, J ^a   Paglieri, S ^a   McEvoy, A M ^a   Kim, Y ^a   Batha, S H ^a   Horsfield, C J ^b   Drew, D ^b   Garbett, W ^b   Rubery, M ^b   Glebov, V Yu ^c   Roberts, S ^c   Frenje, J A ^d   more..

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AWE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM FRACTIONS; DIRECT DRIVE; EQUATION OF STATE; LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; OMEGA LASER; PARTICLE PRESSURE; PLASTIC CAPSULE; SHELL MIXING; XRAY IMAGING; YIELD REDUCTION;

DEGRADATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE OF GASES; GAS MIXTURES; HELIUM; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; PLASMAS;

PHOTODEGRADATION;

EID: 66449137810     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3141062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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