Mitigation of two-plasmon decay in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion through the manipulation of ion-acoustic and Langmuir wave damping

Myatt, J. F.; Vu, H. X.; DuBois, D. F.; Russell, D. A.; Zhang, J.; Short, R. W.; Maximov, A. V.

doi:10.1063/1.4807036

Mitigation of two-plasmon decay in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion through the manipulation of ion-acoustic and Langmuir wave damping

Journal Article · Wed May 22 04:00:00 EDT 2013 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4807036· OSTI ID:1087577

Myatt, J. F. ^[1]; Vu, H. X. ^[2]; DuBois, D. F. ^[3]; Russell, D. A. ^[3]; Zhang, J. ^[4]; Short, R. W. ^[5]; Maximov, A. V. ^[5]

Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester 1 , 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA; Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California 2 , San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0407, USA
Lodestar Research Corporation 3 , 2400 Central Avenue, P-5, Boulder, Colorado 80301, USA
Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester 1 , 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA; Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester 4 , Rochester, New York 14627, USA
Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester 1 , 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623-1299, USA

The extended Zakharov model of the two-plasmon decay instability in an inhomogeneous plasma [D. F. DuBois et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3983 (1995); D. A. Russell and D. F. DuBois, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 428 (2001)] is further generalized to include the evolution of the electron distribution function in the quasi-linear approximation [cf., e.g., K. Y. Sanbonmatsu et al. Phys. Plasmas 7, 2824 (2000); D. A. Russell et al., paper presented at the Workshop on SRS/SBS Saturation, Wente Vineyards, Livermore, CA, 2–5 April 2002]. This makes it possible to investigate anomalous absorption of laser light and hot electron production due to the two-plasmon decay instability of multiple overlapping electromagnetic waves. Scalings of hot-electron production in the (stationary) nonlinearly saturated regime relevant to recent experiments [B. Yaakobi et al., Phys. Plasmas 19, 012704 (2012); D. H. Froula et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 165003 (2012)] have been obtained. They indicate a sensitivity to ion-acoustic wave (IAW) damping and to the collisional absorption of Langmuir waves. Such a sensitivity might be exploited in inertial confinement fusion target design by the use of mid-Z ablators.

Research Organization:: Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FC52-08NA28302

OSTI ID:: 1087577

Report Number(s):: DOE/NA/28302-1121; 2013-3; 2093

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 20; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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