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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0003298
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- U.S. Department of Energy by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- agency of the United States government
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We describe the overall performance of the major indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion campaigns executed at the National Ignition Facility. With respect to the proximity to ignition, we can describe the performance of current experiments both in terms of no-burn ignition metrics (metrics based on the hydrodynamic performance of targets in the absence of alpha-particle heating) and in terms of the thermodynamic properties of the hotspot and dense fuel at stagnation-in particular, the hotspot pressure, temperature, and areal density. We describe a simple 1D isobaric model to derive these quantities from experimental observables and examine where current experiments lie with respect to the conditions required for ignition.
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