Feasibility of High Yield / High Gain NIF Capsules
Our original ignition ''point designs'' (circa 1992) for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) were made energetically conservative to provide margin for uncertainties in laser absorption, x-ray conversion efficiency and hohlraum-capsule coupling. Since that time, extensive experiments on Nova and Omega and their related analysis indicate that NIF coupling efficiency may be almost ''as good as we could hope for''. Given close agreement between experiment and theory/modeling, we can credibly explore target enhancements which couple more of NIF's energy to an ignition capsule. We find that 3-4X increases in absorbed capsule energy appear possible, providing a potentially more robust target and {approx}10X increase in capsule yield.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Defense Programs (DP) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-Eng-48
- OSTI ID:
- 790916
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-136784; TRN: US0200832
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Proceedings of NEDPC - 10/99, LANL, IFSA, Bordeux (FR), 09/18/1999--09/22/1999; Other Information: PBD: 6 Dec 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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