Barlow, D., Goffrey, T., Bennett, K. et al. (11 more authors) (2022) Role of hot electrons in shock ignition constrained by experiment at the National Ignition Facility. Physics of Plasmas. 082704. ISSN 1089-7674
Abstract
Shock ignition is a scheme for direct drive inertial confinement fusion that offers the potential for high gain with the current generation of laser facility; however, the benefits are thought to be dependent on the use of low adiabat implosions without laser-plasma instabilities reducing drive and generating hot electrons. A National Ignition Facility direct drive solid target experiment was used to calibrate a 3D Monte Carlo hot-electron model for 2D radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of a shock ignition implosion. The α = 2.5 adiabat implosion was calculated to suffer a 35% peak areal density decrease when the hot electron population with temperature T h = 55 keV and energy E h = 13 kJ was added to the simulation. Optimizing the pulse shape can recover ∼ 1 / 3 of the peak areal density lost due to a change in shock timing. Despite the harmful impact of laser-plasma instabilities, the simulations indicate shock ignition as a viable method to improve performance and broaden the design space of near ignition high adiabat implosions.
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Physics (York) The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Chemistry (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EPSRC EP/P026796/1 EPSRC EP/L000644/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2022 15:50 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2025 00:34 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0097080 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1063/5.0097080 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:191048 |
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