Assembly of High-Areal-Density Deuterium-Tritium Fuel from Indirectly Driven Cryogenic Implosions
Author(s) -
A. J. Mackin,
J. L. Kline,
S. N. Dixit,
S. H. Glenzer,
M. Edwards,
D. A. Callahan,
N. B. Meezan,
S. W. Haan,
J. D. Kilkenny,
T. Döppner,
D. R. Farley,
J. D. Moody,
J. E. Ralph,
B. J. MacGowan,
O. L. Landen,
H. F. Robey,
T. R. Boehly,
P. M. Celliers,
J. H. Eggert,
K. Krauter,
G. Frieders,
G. Ross,
D. G. Hicks,
Richard E. Olson,
S. V. Weber,
B. K. Spears,
J. D. Salmonsen,
P. Michel,
L. Divol,
B. Hammel,
C. A. Thomas,
D. S. Clark,
O. S. Jones,
P. T. Springer,
C. Cerjan,
G. W. Collins,
V. Yu. Glebov,
J. P. Knauer,
T. C. Sangster,
C. Stöeckl,
P. W. McKenty,
J. M. McNaney,
R. J. Leeper,
C. L. Ruiz,
G. W. Cooper,
Andrew Nelson,
G. G. A. Chandler,
Kelly Hahn,
M. J. Moran,
M. B. Schneider,
N. E. Palmer,
R. M. Bionta,
E. P. Hartouni,
S. Le Pape,
P. K. Patel,
N. Izumi,
R. Tommasini,
E. Bond,
J. A. Caggiano,
R. Hatarik,
G. P. Grim,
F. E. Merrill,
D. N. Fittinghoff,
N. Guler,
Owen B. Drury,
D. C. Wilson,
H. W. Herrmann,
W. Stoeffl,
D. T. Casey,
M. Gatu Johnson,
J. A. Frenje,
R. D. Petrasso,
A. Zylestra,
H. G. Rinderknecht,
D. Kalantar,
John M. Dzenitis,
P. Di Nicola,
D. C. Eder,
W. H. Courdin,
G. Gururangan,
S. Burkhart,
S. Friedrich,
D. L. Blueuel,
L. A. Bernstein,
M. J. Eckart,
D. H. Munro,
S. P. Hatchett,
A. G. MacPhee,
D. H. Edgell,
D. K. Bradley,
P. M. Bell,
S. Glenn,
N. Simanovskaia,
M. A. Barrios,
R. Benedetti,
G. A. Kyrala,
R. P. J. Town,
E. L. Dewald,
J. L. Milovich,
K. Widmann,
A. S. Moore,
Greg LaCaille,
S. P. Regan,
L. J. Suter,
B. Felker,
R. Ashabranner,
Mark C. Jackson,
Rahul Prasad,
M. Richardson,
T. Kohut,
P. Datte,
G. W. Krauter,
J. J. Klingman,
R. Burr,
T. A. Land,
M. R. Hermann,
D. A. Latray,
R. Saunders,
S. Weaver,
Simon J. Cohen,
L.V. Berzins,
Stephen G. Brass,
E. S. Palma,
R. Lowe-Webb,
G. N. McHalle,
P. Arnold,
L. Lagin,
C. D. Marshall,
G. Brunton,
D G Mathisen,
R. D. Wood,
J. R. Cox,
R. B. Ehrlich,
K. Knittel,
M. W. Bowers,
R. Zacharias,
B. K. Young,
J. P. Holder,
J. R. Kimbrough,
T. Ma,
K. N. La Fortune,
C. Widmayer,
Michael Shaw,
Gaylen V. Erbert,
K. S. Jancaitis,
J. M. Di-Nicola,
C. D. Orth,
G. M. Heestand,
R. K. Kirkwood,
C. Haynam,
Paul J. Wegner,
P. K. Whitman,
A. V. Hamza,
E. G. Dzenitis,
R. J. Wallace,
S. D. Bhandarkar,
T. Parham,
Rebecca DyllaSpears,
E. R. Mapoles,
B. Kozioziemski,
J. Sater,
C. F. Walters,
B. Haid,
J. Fair,
A. Nikroo,
E. Giraldez,
K. A. Moreno,
B. VanWonterghem,
R. L. Kauffman,
S. H. Batha,
Douglas W. Larson,
Renée T. Fortner,
Dieter Schneider,
J. D. Lindl,
R. W. Patterson,
L. J. Atherton,
E. I. Moses
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
physical review letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.688
H-Index - 673
eISSN - 1079-7114
pISSN - 0031-9007
DOI - 10.1103/physrevlett.108.215005
Subject(s) - hohlraum , implosion , national ignition facility , deuterium , area density , tritium , materials science , inertial confinement fusion , neutron , nuclear physics , nuclear engineering , radius , power density , ignition system , laser , van de graaff generator , radiation , optics , plasma , physics , power (physics) , beam (structure) , computer security , computer science , quantum mechanics , engineering , thermodynamics , composite material
The National Ignition Facility has been used to compress deuterium-tritium to an average areal density of ∼1.0±0.1 g cm−2, which is 67% of the ignition requirement. These conditions were obtained using 192 laser beams with total energy of 1–1.6 MJ and peak power up to 420 TW to create a hohlraum drive with a shaped power profile, peaking at a soft x-ray radiation temperature of 275–300 eV. This pulse delivered a series of shocks that compressed a capsule containing cryogenic deuterium-tritium to a radius of 25–35 μm. Neutron images of the implosion were used to estimate a fuel density of 500–800 g cm−3
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