Transport and spatial energy deposition of relativistic electrons in copper-doped fast ignition plasmas
- Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Osaka Univ., Osaka (Japan)
- Univ. of Bordeaux, Talence (France)
- Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
Fast electron transport and spatial energy deposition are investigated in integrated cone-guided Fast Ignition experiments by measuring fast electron induced copper K-shell emission using a copper tracer added to deuterated plastic shells with a geometrically reentrant gold cone. Experiments were carried out at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics on the OMEGA/OMEGA-EP Laser where the plastic shells were imploded using 54 of the 60 OMEGA60 beams (3ω, 20 kJ), while the high intensity OMEGA-EP (BL2) beam (1 ω, 10 ps, 500 J, Ipeak > 1019 W/cm2) was focused onto the inner cone tip. Here, a retrograde analysis using the hybrid-PIC electron transport code, ZUMA, is performed to examine the sensitivity of the copper Kα spatial profile on the laser-produced fast electrons, facilitating the optimization of new target point designs and laser configurations to improve the compressed core areal density by a factor of 4 and the fast electron energy coupling by a factor of 3.5.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; FC02-04ER54789; FG02-05ER54834; NA0000854
- OSTI ID:
- 1411681
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1402528
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-736430
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 24, Issue 10; ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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