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Cristoforetti G, Baffigi F, Batani D, Dudzak R, Fedosejevs R, Filippov ED, Gajdos P, Juha L, Khan M, Koester P, Krus M, Mancelli D, Martynenko AS, Nicolai P, Pikuz SA, Renner O, Tentori A, Volpe L, Woolsey N, Zeraouli G, Gizzi LA. Investigation on the origin of hot electrons in laser plasma interaction at shock ignition intensities. Sci Rep 2023; 13:20681. [PMID: 38001120 PMCID: PMC10673912 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46189-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 10/29/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
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Shock Ignition is a two-step scheme to reach Inertial Confinement Fusion, where the precompressed fuel capsule is ignited by a strong shock driven by a laser pulse at an intensity in the order of [Formula: see text] W/cm[Formula: see text]. In this report we describe the results of an experiment carried out at PALS laser facility designed to investigate the origin of hot electrons in laser-plasma interaction at intensities and plasma temperatures expected for Shock Ignition. A detailed time- and spectrally-resolved characterization of Stimulated Raman Scattering and Two Plasmon Decay instabilities, as well as of the generated hot electrons, suggest that Stimulated Raman Scattering is the dominant source of hot electrons via the damping of daughter plasma waves. The temperature dependence of laser plasma instabilities was also investigated, enabled by the use of different ablator materials, suggesting that Two Plasmon Decay is damped at earlier times for higher plasma temperatures, accompanied by an earlier ignition of SRS. The identification of the predominant hot electron source and the effect of plasma temperature on laser plasma interaction, here investigated, are extremely useful for developing the mitigation strategies for reducing the impact of hot electrons on the fuel ignition.
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- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR, Pisa, Italy
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- Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA, 33405, Talence, France
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- Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Physics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
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- York Plasma Institute, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, York, UK
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- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR, Pisa, Italy
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- Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Plasma Physics and Lasers, Hellenic Mediterranean University Research Centre, Rethymnon, Greece
- Department of Electronic Engineering, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Chania, Greece
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- JIHT RAS, Moscow, 125412, Russia
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA, 33405, Talence, France
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- JIHT RAS, Moscow, 125412, Russia
- NRNU MEPhI, Moscow, 115409, Russia
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- Institute of Plasma Physics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
- Institute of Physics of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
- The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolni Brezany, Czech Republic
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- Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA, 33405, Talence, France
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- Centro de Laseres Pulsados (CLPU), 37185, Villamayor, Salamanca, Spain
- ETSI Aeronáutica y del Espacio, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- York Plasma Institute, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, York, UK
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- Centro de Laseres Pulsados (CLPU), 37185, Villamayor, Salamanca, Spain
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- Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR, Pisa, Italy
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Li XX, Cheng RJ, Wang Q, Liu DJ, Lv SY, Huang ZM, Zhang ST, Li XM, Chen ZJ, Wang Q, Liu ZJ, Cao LH, Zheng CY, He XT. Anomalous staged hot-electron acceleration by two-plasmon decay instability in magnetized plasmas. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:L053201. [PMID: 38115515 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.l053201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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We present a staged hot-electron acceleration mechanism of the two-plasmon decay (TPD) instability in the transverse magnetic field under the parameters relevant to inertial confinement fusion experiments. After being accelerated by the forward electron plasma wave (FEPW) of TPD, the hot-electrons can be anomalously accelerated again by the backward electron plasma wave (BEPW) of TPD and then obtain higher energy. Moreover, the surfatron acceleration mechanism of TPD in the magnetic field is also confirmed, the electrons trapped by the TPD daughter EPWs are accelerated in the direction along the wave front. Interestingly, the velocity of electrons accelerated by surfing from the FEPW is quite easily close to the BEPW phase velocity, which markedly enhances the efficiency of the staged acceleration. The coexistence of these two acceleration mechanisms leads to a significant increase of energetic electrons generated by TPD in the magnetic field. Meanwhile the EPWs are dissipated, TPD instability is effectively suppressed, and the laser transmission increases.
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- X X Li
- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
- HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, and College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
- HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, and College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
- HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, and College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
- HEDPS, Center for Applied Physics and Technology, and College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Cao SH, Patel D, Lees A, Stoeckl C, Rosenberg MJ, Gopalaswamy V, Wen H, Huang H, Shvydky A, Betti R, Ren C. Predicting hot electron generation in inertial confinement fusion with particle-in-cell simulations. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:055214. [PMID: 36559357 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.055214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A series of two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations with speckled laser drivers was carried out to study hot electron generation in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion on OMEGA. Scaling laws were obtained for hot electron fraction and temperature as functions of laser/plasma conditions in the quarter-critical region. Using these scalings and conditions from hydro simulations, the temporal history of hot electron generation can be predicted. The scalings can be further improved to predict hard x-rays for a collection of OMEGA warm target implosions within experimental error bars. These scalings can be readily implemented into inertial confinement fusion design codes.
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- S H Cao
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.,Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.,Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.,Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.,Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.,Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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Turnbull D, Maximov AV, Edgell DH, Seka W, Follett RK, Palastro JP, Cao D, Goncharov VN, Stoeckl C, Froula DH. Anomalous Absorption by the Two-Plasmon Decay Instability. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:185001. [PMID: 32441948 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.185001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2019] [Revised: 03/11/2020] [Accepted: 04/17/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of directly driven fusion experiments at the Omega Laser Facility predict absorption accurately when targets are driven at low overlapped laser intensity. Discrepancies appear at increased intensity, however, with higher-than-expected laser absorption on target. Strong correlations with signatures of the two-plasmon decay (TPD) instability-including half-harmonic and hard-x-ray emission-indicate that TPD is responsible for this anomalous absorption. Scattered light data suggest that up to ≈30% of the laser power reaching quarter-critical density can be absorbed locally when the TPD threshold is exceeded. A scaling of absorption versus TPD threshold parameter was empirically determined and validated using the laser-plasma simulation environment code.
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- D Turnbull
- University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 E River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 E River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 E River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 E River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 E River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 E River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 E River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 E River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 E River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, 250 E River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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Banasek JT, Rocco SVR, Potter WM, Byvank T, Kusse BR, Hammer DA. Multi-angle multi-pulse time-resolved Thomson scattering on laboratory plasma jets. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2018; 89:10C109. [PMID: 30399882 DOI: 10.1063/1.5034310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A single channel sub-nanosecond time-resolved Thomson scattering system used for pulsed power-driven high energy density plasma measurements has been upgraded to give electron temperatures at two different times and from two different angles simultaneously. This system was used to study plasma jets created from a 15 μm thick radial Al foil load on a 1 MA pulsed power machine. Two laser pulses were generated by splitting the initial 2.3 ns duration, 10 J, 526.5 nm laser beam into two pulses, each with 2.5 J, and delaying one relative to the other by between 3 and 14 ns. Time resolution within each pulse was obtained using a streak camera to record the scattered spectra from the two beams from two scattering angles. Analysis of the scattering profile showed that the electron temperature of the Al jet increased from 20 eV up to as much as 45 eV within about 2 ns by inverse bremsstrahlung for both laser pulses. The Thomson scattering results from jets formed with opposite current polarities showed different laser heating of the electrons, as well as possibly different ion temperatures. The two-angle scattering determined that the electron density of the plasma jet was at least 2 × 1018 cm-3.
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- J T Banasek
- Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Laboratory of Plasma Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Hu SX, Collins LA, Goncharov VN, Boehly TR, Epstein R, McCrory RL, Skupsky S. First-principles opacity table of warm dense deuterium for inertial-confinement-fusion applications. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 90:033111. [PMID: 25314551 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.033111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Accurate knowledge of the optical properties of a warm dense deuterium-tritium (DT) mixture is important for reliable design of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions using radiation-hydrodynamics simulations. The opacity of a warm dense DT shell essentially determines how much radiation from hot coronal plasmas can be deposited in the DT fuel of an imploding capsule. Even for the simplest species of hydrogen, the accurate calculation of their opacities remains a challenge in the warm-dense matter regime because strong-coupling and quantum effects play an important role in such plasmas. With quantum-molecular-dynamics (QMD) simulations, we have derived a first-principles opacity table (FPOT) of deuterium (and the DT mixture by mass scaling) for a wide range of densities from ρ(D)=0.5 to 673.518g/cm(3) and temperatures from T=5000K up to the Fermi temperature T(F) for each density. Compared with results from the astrophysics opacity table (AOT) currently used in our hydrocodes, the FPOT of deuterium from our QMD calculations has shown a significant increase in opacity for strongly coupled and degenerate plasma conditions by a factor of 3-100 in the ICF-relevant photon-energy range. As conditions approach those of classical plasma, the opacity from the FPOT converges to the corresponding values of the AOT. By implementing the FPOT of deuterium and the DT mixture into our hydrocodes, we have performed radiation-hydrodynamics simulations for low-adiabat cryogenic DT implosions on the OMEGA laser and for direct-drive-ignition designs for the National Ignition Facility. The simulation results using the FPOT show that the target performance (in terms of neutron yield and energy gain) could vary from ∼10% up to a factor of ∼2 depending on the adiabat of the imploding DT capsule; the lower the adiabat, the more variation is seen in the prediction of target performance when compared to the AOT modeling.
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- S X Hu
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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Eimerl D, Campbell EM, Krupke WF, Zweiback J, Kruer WL, Marozas J, Zuegel J, Myatt J, Kelly J, Froula D, McCrory RL. StarDriver: A Flexible Laser Driver for Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Energy Density Physics. JOURNAL OF FUSION ENERGY 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s10894-014-9697-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Seka W, Myatt JF, Short RW, Froula DH, Katz J, Goncharov VN, Igumenshchev IV. Nonuniformly driven two-plasmon-decay instability in direct-drive implosions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2014; 112:145001. [PMID: 24765976 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.145001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Half-harmonic emission spectra and images taken during directly driven implosions show that the two-plasmon decay (TPD) instability is driven nonuniformly over the target surface and that multibeam effects dominate this instability. The images show a spatially limited extent of the TPD instability. A prominent spectral feature is used to determine the electron temperature in the corona. Near threshold the temperatures agree with one-dimensional hydrodynamic predictions but exceed them by ∼10% above the TPD threshold. Two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations indicate that a significant part (∼20%) of the laser intensity must be locally absorbed by the TPD instability (i.e., by collisional damping of the electron plasma waves) to maintain these temperature islands.
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- W Seka
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA
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Hu SX, Collins LA, Boehly TR, Kress JD, Goncharov VN, Skupsky S. First-principles thermal conductivity of warm-dense deuterium plasmas for inertial confinement fusion applications. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:043105. [PMID: 24827353 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.043105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Thermal conductivity (κ) of both the ablator materials and deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel plays an important role in understanding and designing inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions. The extensively used Spitzer model for thermal conduction in ideal plasmas breaks down for high-density, low-temperature shells that are compressed by shocks and spherical convergence in imploding targets. A variety of thermal-conductivity models have been proposed for ICF hydrodynamic simulations of such coupled and degenerate plasmas. The accuracy of these κ models for DT plasmas has recently been tested against first-principles calculations using the quantum molecular-dynamics (QMD) method; although mainly for high densities (ρ > 100 g/cm3), large discrepancies in κ have been identified for the peak-compression conditions in ICF. To cover the wide range of density-temperature conditions undergone by ICF imploding fuel shells, we have performed QMD calculations of κ for a variety of deuterium densities of ρ = 1.0 to 673.518 g/cm3, at temperatures varying from T = 5 × 103 K to T = 8 × 106 K. The resulting κQMD of deuterium is fitted with a polynomial function of the coupling and degeneracy parameters Γ and θ, which can then be used in hydrodynamic simulation codes. Compared with the "hybrid" Spitzer-Lee-More model currently adopted in our hydrocode lilac, the hydrosimulations using the fitted κQMD have shown up to ∼20% variations in predicting target performance for different ICF implosions on OMEGA and direct-drive-ignition designs for the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The lower the adiabat of an imploding shell, the more variations in predicting target performance using κQMD. Moreover, the use of κQMD also modifies the shock conditions and the density-temperature profiles of the imploding shell at early implosion stage, which predominantly affects the final target performance. This is in contrast to the previous speculation that κQMD changes mainly the inside ablation process during the hot-spot formation of an ICF implosion.
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- S X Hu
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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Michel DT, Maximov AV, Short RW, Hu SX, Myatt JF, Seka W, Solodov AA, Yaakobi B, Froula DH. Experimental validation of the two-plasmon-decay common-wave process. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012; 109:155007. [PMID: 23102322 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.155007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The energy in hot electrons produced by the two plasmon decay instability, in planar targets, is measured to be the same when driven by one or two laser beams and significantly reduced with four for a constant overlapped intensity on the OMEGA EP. This is caused by multiple beams sharing the same common electron-plasma wave. A model, consistent with the experimental results, predicts that multiple laser beams can only drive a resonant common two plasmon decay electron-plasma wave in the region of wave numbers bisecting the beams. In this region, the gain is proportional to the overlapped laser beam intensity.
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- D T Michel
- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14636, USA.
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