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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.095001
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- U.S. Department of Energy by the Los Alamos National Security, LLC, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Knudsen layer losses of tail fuel ions can significantly reduce the fusion reactivity of multi-keV DT in capsules with small fuel rho r; sizable yield reduction can result for small inertial confinement fusion (ICF) capsules. This effect is most pronounced when the distance from a burning DT gas region to a nonreacting or cold wall is comparable to the mean free path of reacting fuel ions. A simplified asymptotic theory of Knudsen layer tail depletion is presented and a nonlocal reduced fusion reactivity model is obtained. Application of the model in simulations of ICF capsule implosion experiments gives calculated yields and ion temperatures that are in much closer agreement with observations than are the results of nominal or mixed simulations omitting the model.
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