High-performance inertial confinement fusion target implosions on OMEGA

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Meyerhofer, D D ^a,e   McCrory, R L ^a,e   Betti, R ^a,e   Boehly, T R ^a   Casey, D T ^b   Collins, T J B ^a   Craxton, R S ^a   Delettrez, J A ^a   Edgell, D H ^a   Epstein, R ^a   Fletcher, K A ^c   Frenje, J A ^b   Glebov, Y Yu ^a   Goncharov, V N ^a   Harding, D R ^a   Hu, S X ^a   Igumenshchev, I V ^a   Knauer, J P ^a   Li, C K ^b   Marozas, J A ^a   Marshall, F J ^a   McKenty, P W ^a   Nilson, P M ^a   Padalino, S P ^c   Petrasso, R D ^b   Radha, P B ^a   Regan, S P ^a   Sangster, T C ^a   Seguin F H ^b   Seka, W ^a   Short, R W ^a   Shvarts, D ^d   Skupsky, S ^a   Soures, J M ^a   Stoeckl, C ^a   Theobald, W ^a   Yaakobi, B ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREAL DENSITIES; DEUTERIUM-TRITIUM; DIRECT DRIVE; FAST IGNITION; HIGH-ENERGY LASER PULSE; HOT SPOT; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION TARGET; NEUTRON YIELDS; OMEGA LASER FACILITY; TARGET IMPLOSIONS;

DEUTERIUM; EXPLOSIONS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; TRITIUM;

INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION;

EID: 79955826232     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/51/5/053010     Document Type: Article

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