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Title: A direct-drive exploding-pusher implosion as the first step in development of a monoenergetic charged-particle backlighting platforn at the National Ignition Facility

Abstract

Here, a thin-glass-shell, D3He-filled exploding-pusher inertial confinement fusion implosion at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has been demonstrated as a proton source that serves as a promising first step toward development of a monoenergetic proton, alpha, and triton backlighting platform at the NIF. Among the key measurements, the D3He-proton emission on this experiment (shot N121128) has been well-characterized spectrally, temporally, and in terms of emission isotropy, revealing a highly monoenergetic (ΔE/E~4%) and isotropic source (~3% proton fluence variation and ~0.5% proton energy variation). On a similar shot (N130129, with D2 fill), the DD-proton spectrum has been obtained as well, illustrating that monoenergetic protons of multiple energies may be utilized in a single experiment. These results, and experiments on OMEGA, point toward future steps in the development of a precision, monoenergetic proton, alpha, and triton source that can readily be implemented at the NIF for backlighting a broad range of high energy density physics (HEDP) experiments in which fields and flows are manifest, and also utilized for studies of stopping power in warm dense matter and in classical plasmas.

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  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  3. Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY (United States)
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  5. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1260487
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1260970; OSTI ID: 1260971
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-688773
Journal ID: ISSN 1574-1818
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344; NA0001857; NA0002949
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
High Energy Density Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 18; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 1574-1818
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; exploding-pusher implosions; charged-particle backlighting; nuclear diagnostics; 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

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Rosenberg, M. J., Zylstra, A. B., Seguin, F. H., Rinderknecht, H. G., Frenje, J. A., Johnson, M. Gatu, Sio, H., Waugh, C. J., Li, C. K., Petrasso, R. D., LaPape, S., Ma, T., Mackinnon, A. J., Rygg, J. R., Amendt, P. A., Bellei, C., Benedetti, L. R., Hopkins, L. Berzak, Bionta, R. M., Casey, D. T., Divol, L., Edwards, M. J., Glenn, S., Glenzer, S. H., Hicks, D. G., Kimbrough, J. R., Landen, O. L., Lindl, J. D., MacPhee, A., McNaney, J. M., Meezan, N. B., Moody, J. D., Moran, M. J., Park, H. -S., Pino, J., Remington, B. A., Robey, H., Rosen, M. D., Wilks, S. C., Zacharias, R. A., McKenty, P. W., Hohenberger, M., Radha, P. B., Edgell, D., Marshall, F. J., Delettrez, J. A., Glebov, V. Yu., Betti, R., Goncharov, V. N., Knauer, J. P., Sangster, T. C., Herrmann, H. W., Hoffman, N. M., Kyrala, G. A., Leeper, R. J., Olson, R. E., Kilkenny, J. D., Nikroo, A., and Sinenian, N. A direct-drive exploding-pusher implosion as the first step in development of a monoenergetic charged-particle backlighting platforn at the National Ignition Facility. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1016/j.hedp.2016.01.001.
Rosenberg, M. J., Zylstra, A. B., Seguin, F. H., Rinderknecht, H. G., Frenje, J. A., Johnson, M. Gatu, Sio, H., Waugh, C. J., Li, C. K., Petrasso, R. D., LaPape, S., Ma, T., Mackinnon, A. J., Rygg, J. R., Amendt, P. A., Bellei, C., Benedetti, L. R., Hopkins, L. Berzak, Bionta, R. M., Casey, D. T., Divol, L., Edwards, M. J., Glenn, S., Glenzer, S. H., Hicks, D. G., Kimbrough, J. R., Landen, O. L., Lindl, J. D., MacPhee, A., McNaney, J. M., Meezan, N. B., Moody, J. D., Moran, M. J., Park, H. -S., Pino, J., Remington, B. A., Robey, H., Rosen, M. D., Wilks, S. C., Zacharias, R. A., McKenty, P. W., Hohenberger, M., Radha, P. B., Edgell, D., Marshall, F. J., Delettrez, J. A., Glebov, V. Yu., Betti, R., Goncharov, V. N., Knauer, J. P., Sangster, T. C., Herrmann, H. W., Hoffman, N. M., Kyrala, G. A., Leeper, R. J., Olson, R. E., Kilkenny, J. D., Nikroo, A., & Sinenian, N. A direct-drive exploding-pusher implosion as the first step in development of a monoenergetic charged-particle backlighting platforn at the National Ignition Facility. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hedp.2016.01.001
Rosenberg, M. J., Zylstra, A. B., Seguin, F. H., Rinderknecht, H. G., Frenje, J. A., Johnson, M. Gatu, Sio, H., Waugh, C. J., Li, C. K., Petrasso, R. D., LaPape, S., Ma, T., Mackinnon, A. J., Rygg, J. R., Amendt, P. A., Bellei, C., Benedetti, L. R., Hopkins, L. Berzak, Bionta, R. M., Casey, D. T., Divol, L., Edwards, M. J., Glenn, S., Glenzer, S. H., Hicks, D. G., Kimbrough, J. R., Landen, O. L., Lindl, J. D., MacPhee, A., McNaney, J. M., Meezan, N. B., Moody, J. D., Moran, M. J., Park, H. -S., Pino, J., Remington, B. A., Robey, H., Rosen, M. D., Wilks, S. C., Zacharias, R. A., McKenty, P. W., Hohenberger, M., Radha, P. B., Edgell, D., Marshall, F. J., Delettrez, J. A., Glebov, V. Yu., Betti, R., Goncharov, V. N., Knauer, J. P., Sangster, T. C., Herrmann, H. W., Hoffman, N. M., Kyrala, G. A., Leeper, R. J., Olson, R. E., Kilkenny, J. D., Nikroo, A., and Sinenian, N. Mon . "A direct-drive exploding-pusher implosion as the first step in development of a monoenergetic charged-particle backlighting platforn at the National Ignition Facility". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hedp.2016.01.001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1260487.
@article{osti_1260487,
title = {A direct-drive exploding-pusher implosion as the first step in development of a monoenergetic charged-particle backlighting platforn at the National Ignition Facility},
author = {Rosenberg, M. J. and Zylstra, A. B. and Seguin, F. H. and Rinderknecht, H. G. and Frenje, J. A. and Johnson, M. Gatu and Sio, H. and Waugh, C. J. and Li, C. K. and Petrasso, R. D. and LaPape, S. and Ma, T. and Mackinnon, A. J. and Rygg, J. R. and Amendt, P. A. and Bellei, C. and Benedetti, L. R. and Hopkins, L. Berzak and Bionta, R. M. and Casey, D. T. and Divol, L. and Edwards, M. J. and Glenn, S. and Glenzer, S. H. and Hicks, D. G. and Kimbrough, J. R. and Landen, O. L. and Lindl, J. D. and MacPhee, A. and McNaney, J. M. and Meezan, N. B. and Moody, J. D. and Moran, M. J. and Park, H. -S. and Pino, J. and Remington, B. A. and Robey, H. and Rosen, M. D. and Wilks, S. C. and Zacharias, R. A. and McKenty, P. W. and Hohenberger, M. and Radha, P. B. and Edgell, D. and Marshall, F. J. and Delettrez, J. A. and Glebov, V. Yu. and Betti, R. and Goncharov, V. N. and Knauer, J. P. and Sangster, T. C. and Herrmann, H. W. and Hoffman, N. M. and Kyrala, G. A. and Leeper, R. J. and Olson, R. E. and Kilkenny, J. D. and Nikroo, A. and Sinenian, N.},
abstractNote = {Here, a thin-glass-shell, D3He-filled exploding-pusher inertial confinement fusion implosion at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has been demonstrated as a proton source that serves as a promising first step toward development of a monoenergetic proton, alpha, and triton backlighting platform at the NIF. Among the key measurements, the D3He-proton emission on this experiment (shot N121128) has been well-characterized spectrally, temporally, and in terms of emission isotropy, revealing a highly monoenergetic (ΔE/E~4%) and isotropic source (~3% proton fluence variation and ~0.5% proton energy variation). On a similar shot (N130129, with D2 fill), the DD-proton spectrum has been obtained as well, illustrating that monoenergetic protons of multiple energies may be utilized in a single experiment. These results, and experiments on OMEGA, point toward future steps in the development of a precision, monoenergetic proton, alpha, and triton source that can readily be implemented at the NIF for backlighting a broad range of high energy density physics (HEDP) experiments in which fields and flows are manifest, and also utilized for studies of stopping power in warm dense matter and in classical plasmas.},
doi = {10.1016/j.hedp.2016.01.001},
journal = {High Energy Density Physics},
number = C,
volume = 18,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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