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Title: Development of Improved Radiation Drive Environment for High Foot Implosions at the National Ignition Facility

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In this paper, analyses of high foot implosions show that performance is limited by the radiation drive environment, i.e., the hohlraum. Reported here are significant improvements in the radiation environment, which result in an enhancement in implosion performance. Using a longer, larger case-to-capsule ratio hohlraum at lower gas fill density improves the symmetry control of a high foot implosion. Moreover, for the first time, these hohlraums produce reduced levels of hot electrons, generated by laser-plasma interactions, which are at levels comparable to near-vacuum hohlraums, and well within specifications. Further, there is a noteworthy increase in laser energy coupling to the hohlraum, and discrepancies with simulated radiation production are markedly reduced. At fixed laser energy, high foot implosions driven with this improved hohlraum have achieved a 1.4 × increase in stagnation pressure, with an accompanying relative increase in fusion yield of 50% as compared to a reference experiment with the same laser energy.

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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)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1670556
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1333334
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-694598
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; 823660; TRN: US2203864
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 117; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

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Hinkel, D.  E., Berzak Hopkins, L.  F., Ma, T., Ralph, J.  E., Albert, F., Benedetti, L.  R., Celliers, P.  M., Döppner, T., Goyon, C.  S., Izumi, N., Jarrott, L.  C., Khan, S.  F., Kline, J.  L., Kritcher, A.  L., Kyrala, G.  A., Nagel, S.  R., Pak, A.  E., Patel, P., Rosen, M.  D., Rygg, J.  R., Schneider, M.  B., Turnbull, D.  P., Yeamans, C.  B., Callahan, D.  A., and Hurricane, O.  A. Development of Improved Radiation Drive Environment for High Foot Implosions at the National Ignition Facility. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.117.225002.
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Hinkel, D.  E., Berzak Hopkins, L.  F., Ma, T., Ralph, J.  E., Albert, F., Benedetti, L.  R., Celliers, P.  M., Döppner, T., Goyon, C.  S., Izumi, N., Jarrott, L.  C., Khan, S.  F., Kline, J.  L., Kritcher, A.  L., Kyrala, G.  A., Nagel, S.  R., Pak, A.  E., Patel, P., Rosen, M.  D., Rygg, J.  R., Schneider, M.  B., Turnbull, D.  P., Yeamans, C.  B., Callahan, D.  A., & Hurricane, O.  A. Development of Improved Radiation Drive Environment for High Foot Implosions at the National Ignition Facility. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.225002
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Hinkel, D.  E., Berzak Hopkins, L.  F., Ma, T., Ralph, J.  E., Albert, F., Benedetti, L.  R., Celliers, P.  M., Döppner, T., Goyon, C.  S., Izumi, N., Jarrott, L.  C., Khan, S.  F., Kline, J.  L., Kritcher, A.  L., Kyrala, G.  A., Nagel, S.  R., Pak, A.  E., Patel, P., Rosen, M.  D., Rygg, J.  R., Schneider, M.  B., Turnbull, D.  P., Yeamans, C.  B., Callahan, D.  A., and Hurricane, O.  A. Wed . "Development of Improved Radiation Drive Environment for High Foot Implosions at the National Ignition Facility". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.225002. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1670556.
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@article{osti_1670556,
title = {Development of Improved Radiation Drive Environment for High Foot Implosions at the National Ignition Facility},
author = {Hinkel, D.  E. and Berzak Hopkins, L.  F. and Ma, T. and Ralph, J.  E. and Albert, F. and Benedetti, L.  R. and Celliers, P.  M. and Döppner, T. and Goyon, C.  S. and Izumi, N. and Jarrott, L.  C. and Khan, S.  F. and Kline, J.  L. and Kritcher, A.  L. and Kyrala, G.  A. and Nagel, S.  R. and Pak, A.  E. and Patel, P. and Rosen, M.  D. and Rygg, J.  R. and Schneider, M.  B. and Turnbull, D.  P. and Yeamans, C.  B. and Callahan, D.  A. and Hurricane, O.  A.},
abstractNote = {In this paper, analyses of high foot implosions show that performance is limited by the radiation drive environment, i.e., the hohlraum. Reported here are significant improvements in the radiation environment, which result in an enhancement in implosion performance. Using a longer, larger case-to-capsule ratio hohlraum at lower gas fill density improves the symmetry control of a high foot implosion. Moreover, for the first time, these hohlraums produce reduced levels of hot electrons, generated by laser-plasma interactions, which are at levels comparable to near-vacuum hohlraums, and well within specifications. Further, there is a noteworthy increase in laser energy coupling to the hohlraum, and discrepancies with simulated radiation production are markedly reduced. At fixed laser energy, high foot implosions driven with this improved hohlraum have achieved a 1.4 × increase in stagnation pressure, with an accompanying relative increase in fusion yield of 50% as compared to a reference experiment with the same laser energy.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.117.225002},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 22,
volume = 117,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 23 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Wed Nov 23 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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Fig. 1 Fig. 1: (a) A conventional hohlraum for High Foot implosions is filled with He gas at high density (1.6 mg/cc), through which the inner beams struggle to propagate. To compensate, we utilize CBET to transfer energy from outer to inner beams. SRS occurs along the inner beams, generates hot electrons,more » and exacerbates drive asymmetry. (b) The new hohlraum for High Foot implosions is longer, larger and fielded at lower gas fill density (0.6 mg/cc). This produces less SRS along the inner beams, and mitigates the need for CBET.« less
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