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Title: Experimental room temperature hohlraum performance study on the National Ignition Facility [Experimental evidence for improved performance in room temperature hohlraums on the National Ignition Facility]

Abstract

Room temperature or “warm” (273 K) indirect drive hohlraum experiments have been conducted on the National Ignition Facility with laser energies up to 1.26 MJ and compared to similar cryogenic or “cryo” (~20 K) experiments. Warm experiments use neopentane (C5H12) as the low pressure hohlraum fill gas instead of helium, and propane (C3H8) to replace the cryogenic DT or DHe3 capsule fill. The increased average Z of the hohlraum fill leads to increased inverse bremsstrahlung absorption and an overall hotter hohlraum plasma in simulations. The cross beam energy transfer (CBET) from outer laser beams (pointed toward the laser entrance hole) to inner beams (pointed at the equator) was inferred indirectly from measurements of Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS). These experiments show that a similar hot spot self-emission shape can be produced with less CBET in warm hohlraums. The measured inner cone SRS reflectivity (as a fraction of incident power neglecting CBET) is ~2.5× less in warm than cryo shots with similar hot spot shapes, due to a less need for CBET. The measured outer-beam stimulated the Brillouin scattering power that was higher in the warm shots, leading to a ceiling on power to avoid the optics damage. These measurements also showmore » that the CBET induced by the flow where the beams cross can be effectively mitigated by a 1.5 Å wavelength shift between the inner and outer beams. A smaller scale direct comparison indicates that warm shots give a more prolate implosion than cryo shots with the same wavelength shift and pulse shape. Lastly, the peak radiation temperature was found to be between 5 and 7 eV higher in the warm than the corresponding cryo experiments after accounting for differences in backscatter.« less

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  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1357352
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1360937
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-703037
Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344; AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION; Radiosurgery; Hohlraum; Stimulated Brillouin scattering; Backscattering; Experiment design

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Ralph, J. E., Strozzi, D., Ma, T., Moody, J. D., Hinkel, D. E., Callahan, D. A., MacGowan, B. J., Michel, P., Kline, J. L., Glenzer, S. H., Albert, F., Benedetti, L. R., Divol, L., MacKinnon, A. J., Pak, A., Rygg, J. R., Schneider, M. B., Town, R. P. J., Widmann, K., Hsing, W., and Edwards, M. J. Experimental room temperature hohlraum performance study on the National Ignition Facility [Experimental evidence for improved performance in room temperature hohlraums on the National Ignition Facility]. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4972548.
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Ralph, J. E., Strozzi, D., Ma, T., Moody, J. D., Hinkel, D. E., Callahan, D. A., MacGowan, B. J., Michel, P., Kline, J. L., Glenzer, S. H., Albert, F., Benedetti, L. R., Divol, L., MacKinnon, A. J., Pak, A., Rygg, J. R., Schneider, M. B., Town, R. P. J., Widmann, K., Hsing, W., & Edwards, M. J. Experimental room temperature hohlraum performance study on the National Ignition Facility [Experimental evidence for improved performance in room temperature hohlraums on the National Ignition Facility]. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4972548
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Ralph, J. E., Strozzi, D., Ma, T., Moody, J. D., Hinkel, D. E., Callahan, D. A., MacGowan, B. J., Michel, P., Kline, J. L., Glenzer, S. H., Albert, F., Benedetti, L. R., Divol, L., MacKinnon, A. J., Pak, A., Rygg, J. R., Schneider, M. B., Town, R. P. J., Widmann, K., Hsing, W., and Edwards, M. J. Thu . "Experimental room temperature hohlraum performance study on the National Ignition Facility [Experimental evidence for improved performance in room temperature hohlraums on the National Ignition Facility]". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4972548. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1357352.
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@article{osti_1357352,
title = {Experimental room temperature hohlraum performance study on the National Ignition Facility [Experimental evidence for improved performance in room temperature hohlraums on the National Ignition Facility]},
author = {Ralph, J. E. and Strozzi, D. and Ma, T. and Moody, J. D. and Hinkel, D. E. and Callahan, D. A. and MacGowan, B. J. and Michel, P. and Kline, J. L. and Glenzer, S. H. and Albert, F. and Benedetti, L. R. and Divol, L. and MacKinnon, A. J. and Pak, A. and Rygg, J. R. and Schneider, M. B. and Town, R. P. J. and Widmann, K. and Hsing, W. and Edwards, M. J.},
abstractNote = {Room temperature or “warm” (273 K) indirect drive hohlraum experiments have been conducted on the National Ignition Facility with laser energies up to 1.26 MJ and compared to similar cryogenic or “cryo” (~20 K) experiments. Warm experiments use neopentane (C5H12) as the low pressure hohlraum fill gas instead of helium, and propane (C3H8) to replace the cryogenic DT or DHe3 capsule fill. The increased average Z of the hohlraum fill leads to increased inverse bremsstrahlung absorption and an overall hotter hohlraum plasma in simulations. The cross beam energy transfer (CBET) from outer laser beams (pointed toward the laser entrance hole) to inner beams (pointed at the equator) was inferred indirectly from measurements of Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS). These experiments show that a similar hot spot self-emission shape can be produced with less CBET in warm hohlraums. The measured inner cone SRS reflectivity (as a fraction of incident power neglecting CBET) is ~2.5× less in warm than cryo shots with similar hot spot shapes, due to a less need for CBET. The measured outer-beam stimulated the Brillouin scattering power that was higher in the warm shots, leading to a ceiling on power to avoid the optics damage. These measurements also show that the CBET induced by the flow where the beams cross can be effectively mitigated by a 1.5 Å wavelength shift between the inner and outer beams. A smaller scale direct comparison indicates that warm shots give a more prolate implosion than cryo shots with the same wavelength shift and pulse shape. Lastly, the peak radiation temperature was found to be between 5 and 7 eV higher in the warm than the corresponding cryo experiments after accounting for differences in backscatter.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4972548},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 12,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 29 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Thu Dec 29 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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