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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 126, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.025001
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- U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC5207NA27344]
- General Atomics [89233119CNA000063]
- agency of the U.S. government
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Inertial confinement fusion experiments conducted at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) have achieved new advancements by improving experimental parameters and controlling symmetry, successfully achieving record values for implosion energetics figures of merit and fusion yield.
Inertial confinement fusion seeks to create burning plasma conditions in a spherical capsule implosion, which requires efficiently absorbing the driver energy in the capsule, transferring that energy into kinetic energy of the imploding DT fuel and then into internal energy of the fuel at stagnation. We report new implosions conducted on the National Ignition Facility (NW) with several improvements on recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 245003 (2018); Phys. Rev. E 102, 023210 (2020)]: larger capsules, thicker fuel layers to mitigate fuel-ablator mix, and new symmetry control via cross-beam energy transfer; at modest velocities, these experiments achieve record values for the implosion energetics figures of merit as well as fusion yield for a NIF experiment.
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