Assembly of high-areal-density deuterium-tritium fuel from indirectly driven cryogenic implosions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  MacKinnon, A J ^a   Kline, J L ^c   Dixit, S N ^a   Glenzer, S H ^a   Edwards, M J ^a   Callahan, D A ^a   Meezan, N B ^a   Haan, S W ^a   Kilkenny, J D ^e   Doppner T ^a   Farley, D R ^a   Moody, J D ^a   Ralph, J E ^a   MacGowan, B J ^a   Landen, O L ^a   Robey, H F ^a   Boehly, T R ^b   Celliers, P M ^a   Eggert, J H ^a   Krauter, K ^a   Frieders, G ^a   Ross, G F ^a   Hicks, D G ^a   Olson, R E ^d   Weber, S V ^a   Spears, B K ^a   Salmonsen, J D ^a   Michel, P ^a   Divol, L ^a   Hammel, B ^a   Thomas, C A ^a   Clark, D S ^a   Jones, O S ^a   Springer, P T ^a   Cerjan, C J ^a   Collins, G W ^a   Glebov, V Y ^b   Knauer, J P ^b   Sangster, C ^b   Stoeckl, C ^b   McKenty, P ^b   McNaney, J M ^a   Leeper, R J ^d   Ruiz, C L ^d   Cooper, G W ^h   Nelson, A G ^h   Chandler, G G A ^d   Hahn, K D ^d   Moran, M J ^a   Schneider, M B ^a   Palmer, N E ^a   Bionta, R M ^a   Hartouni, E P ^a   Lepape, S ^a   Patel, P K ^a   Izumi, N ^a   Tommasini, R ^a   Bond, E J ^a   Caggiano, J A ^a   Hatarik, R ^a   Grim, G P ^c   Merrill, F E ^c   Fittinghoff, D N ^a   Guler, N ^c   Drury, O ^a   Wilson, D C ^c   Herrmann, H W ^c   Stoeffl, W ^a   Casey, D T ^f   Johnson, M G ^f   Frenje, J A ^f   Petrasso, R D ^f   Zylestra, A ^f   Rinderknecht, H ^f   Kalantar, D H ^a   Dzenitis, J M ^a   Di Nicola, P ^a   Eder, D C ^a   Courdin, W H ^a   Gururangan, G ^a   Burkhart, S C ^a   Friedrich, S ^a   Blueuel, D L ^a   Bernstein, L A ^a   Eckart, M J ^a   Munro, D H ^a   Hatchett, S P ^a   MacPhee, A G ^a   Edgell, D H ^b   Bradley, D K ^a   Bell, P M ^a   Glenn, S M ^a   Simanovskaia, N ^a   Barrios, M A ^a   Benedetti, R ^a   Kyrala, G A ^c   Town, R P J ^a   Dewald, E L ^a   Milovich, J L ^a   Widmann, K ^a   Moore, A S ^g   Lacaille, G ^a   Regan, S P ^b   Suter, L J ^a   Felker, B ^a   Ashabranner, R C ^a   Jackson, M C ^a   Prasad, R ^a   Richardson, M J ^a   Kohut, T R ^a   Datte, P S ^a   Krauter, G W ^a   Klingman, J J ^a   Burr, R F ^a   Land, T A ^a   Hermann, M R ^a   Latray, D A ^a   Saunders, R L ^a   Weaver, S ^a   Cohen, S J ^a   Berzins, L ^a   Brass, S G ^a   Palma, E S ^a   Lowe Webb, R R ^a   McHalle, G N ^a   Arnold, P A ^a   Lagin, L J ^a   Marshall, C D ^a   Brunton, G K ^a   Mathisen, D G ^a   Wood, R D ^a   Cox, J R ^a   Ehrlich, R B ^a   Knittel, K M ^a   Bowers, M W ^a   Zacharias, R A ^a   Young, B K ^a   Holder, J P ^a   Kimbrough, J R ^a   Ma, T ^a   La Fortune, K N ^a   Widmayer, C C ^a   Shaw, M J ^a   Erbert, G V ^a   Jancaitis, K S ^a   Dinicola, J M ^a   Orth, C ^a   Heestand, G ^a   Kirkwood, R ^a   Haynam, C ^a   Wegner, P J ^a   Whitman, P K ^a   Hamza, A ^a   Dzenitis, E G ^a   Wallace, R J ^a   Bhandarkar, S D ^a   Parham, T G ^a   Dylla Spears, R ^a   Mapoles, E R ^a   Kozioziemski, B J ^a   Sater, J D ^a   Walters, C F ^a   Haid, B J ^a   Fair, J ^a   Nikroo, A ^e   Giraldez, E ^e   Moreno, K ^e   Vanwonterghem, B ^a   Kauffman, R L ^a   Batha, S ^c   Larson, D W ^a   Fortner, R J ^a   Schneider, D H ^a   Lindl, J D ^a   Patterson, R W ^a   Atherton, L J ^a   Moses, E I ^a   more..

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g AWE   (United Kingdom)

^h MSC01 1070   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE AREAL DENSITIES; DEUTERIUM-TRITIUM; DEUTERIUM-TRITIUM FUELS; FUEL DENSITY; HOHLRAUMS; NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY; NEUTRON IMAGE; PEAK POWER; POWER PROFILE; SOFT X-RAY RADIATION; TOTAL ENERGY;

CRYOGENICS; EXPLOSIONS; TRITIUM;

DEUTERIUM;

EID: 84861634195     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.215005     Document Type: Article

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