Observation of hohlraum-wall motion with spectrally selective x-ray imaging at the National Ignition Facility
The high fuel capsule compression required for indirect drive inertial confinement fusion (ICF) requires careful control of the X-raydrive symmetry throughout the laser pulse. When the outer cone beams strike the hohlraum wall, the plasma ablated off the hohlraum wall expands into the hohlraum and can alter both the outer and inner cone beam propagation and hencethe X-raydrive symmetry especially at thefinal stage of the drive pulse. In order to quantitatively understand the wall motion, we developed a new experimental technique which visualizes the expansion and stagnation of the hohlraum wall plasma. Finally, we discuss details of the experiment and the technique of spectrally selectivex-ray imaging.
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- General Atomics, San Diego, California 9212, USA
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
- Publication Date:
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-PROC-696881
Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748; RSINAK
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Review of Scientific Instruments
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 87; Journal Issue: 11; Conference: Presented at: the 21st Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, Madison, WI, United States, Jun 05 - Jun 09, 2016; Journal ID: ISSN 0034-6748
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Research Org:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org:
- USDOE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1281670
- Free Publicly Accessible Full Text
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Accepted Manuscript (DOE)
- Publisher's Version of Record
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960758