Design and analysis of dudded fuel experiments at the National Ignition Facility

Christopherson, A. R.; Schlossberg, D.; MacLaren, S.; Weber, C.; Zylstra, A.; Hurricane, O. A.; Kritcher, A.; Hinkel, D.; Spears, B. K.; Pak, A.; Nora, R.; Kustowski, B.; Baker, K.; Milovich, J.; Munro, D.; Clark, D.; Sepke, S.; Shroeder, C.; Bhandarkar, S.; Sater, J.; Casey, D. T.; Moore, A.; Hartouni, E.; Landen, O. L.

doi:10.1063/5.0212668

Design and analysis of dudded fuel experiments at the National Ignition Facility

Journal Article · Thu Jul 25 20:00:00 EDT 2024 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0212668· OSTI ID:2567548

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Recent experiments conducted at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) within the past 2 years have achieved the burning plasma state and exceeded the Lawson criterion for the first time in the laboratory. Here, we report on a set of experiments where the deuterium and tritium (DT) ice layers were replaced with dudded tritium, hydrogen, and deuterium (THD) fuel mixtures to remove the influence of alpha-heating on hot spot dynamics. The hot spot compression and yield in the absence of alpha particle self-heating were measured to assess the proximity of NIF implosions toward the ignition cliff. We find that the “burn-off” Lawson parameters χnoα inferred from the THD experiments are in good agreement with the inferences from postshot simulations of the DT-layered implosions. The THD for burning plasma shot N210307 yielded χnoα≈0.88±0.03 while the THD for ignition shot N210808 yielded χnoα≈1.04±0.04. These results also provide important context for the observed variability in the repeat attempts of ignition shot N210808 since implosions on the ignition cliff are expected to exhibit very large variations in the fusion yield from small changes in the initial conditions.

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Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: NONE; AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 2567548

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2478920

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 31; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of PhysicsCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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