Recent U.S. advances in ion-beam-driven high energy densityphysics and heavy ion fusion

Conference · Wed Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:887207

Logan, B G; Bieniosek, F M; Celata, C M; Coleman, J; Greenway, W; Henestroza, E; Kwan, J W; Lee, E P; Leitner, M; Roy, P K; Seidl, P A; Vay, J-L; Waldron, W L; Yu, S S; Barnard, J J; Cohen, R H; Friedman, A; Grote, D P; Kireeff Covo, M; Molvik, A W ; Lund, S M; Meier, W R; Sharp, W; Davidson, R C; Efthimion, P C; Gilson, E P; Grisham, L; Kaganovich, Qin H; Sefkow, A B; Startsev, E A; Welch, D; Olson, C

During the past two years, significant experimental and theoretical progress has been made in the US heavy ion fusion science program in longitudinal beam compression, ion-beam-driven warm dense matter, beam acceleration, high brightness beam transport; and advanced theory and numerical simulations. Innovations in longitudinal compression of intense ion beams by > 50 X propagating through background plasma enable initial beam target experiments in warm dense matter to begin within the next two years. They are assessing how these new techniques might apply to heavy ion fusion drivers for inertial fusion energy.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of Fusion EnergySciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Princeton PlasmaPhysics Laboratory
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 887207
• Report Number(s): LBNL-60980; HIFAN 1466; R&D Project: Z41003; BnR: AT5015031; TRN: US200617%%605
• Resource Relation: Conference: 16th International Symposium on Heavy IonInertial Fusion HIF06, Saint-Malo, France, July 9-14th,2006
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
ACCELERATION
BEAM TRANSPORT
BRIGHTNESS
COMPRESSION
ENERGY DENSITY
HEAVY IONS
ION BEAMS
PHYSICS
PLASMA
TARGETS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS