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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 22, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4921144
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- U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
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By increasing the velocity in high foot implosions [Dittrich et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 055002 (2014); Park et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 055001 (2014); Hurricane et al., Nature 506, 343 (2014); Hurricane et al., Phys. Plasmas 21, 056314 (2014)] on the National Ignition Facility laser, we have nearly doubled the neutron yield and the hotspot pressure as compared to the implosions reported upon last year. The implosion velocity has been increased using a combination of the laser (higher power and energy), the hohlraum (depleted uranium wall material with higher opacity and lower specific heat than gold hohlraums), and the capsule (thinner capsules with less mass). We find that the neutron yield from these experiments scales systematically with a velocity-like parameter of the square root of the laser energy divided by the ablator mass. By connecting this parameter with the inferred implosion velocity (nu), we find that for shots with primary yield >1 x 10(15) neutrons, the total yield similar to nu(9.4). This increase is considerably faster than the expected dependence for implosions without alpha heating (similar to nu(5.9)) and is additional evidence that these experiments have significant alpha heating. (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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