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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.1876252
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Polar direct drive (PDD) [S. Skupsky , Phys. Plasmas 11 2763 (2004)] shows promise for achieving direct-drive ignition while the National Ignition Facility (NIF) [E. M. Campbell and W. J. Hogan, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 41 B39 (1999)] is initially configured for indirect drive. Experiments have been carried out using 40 repointed beams of the 60-beam OMEGA laser system [T. R. Boehly , Rev. Sci. Instrum. 66 508 (1995)] to approximate the NIF PDD configuration. Backlit x-ray framing-camera images of D-2-filled spherical CH capsules show a characteristic nonuniformity pattern that is in close agreement with predictions. Saturn targets (similar capsules surrounded by a plastic ring) increase the drive on the equator, suggesting that highly symmetric PDD implosions may be possible with appropriate tuning. Two-dimensional (2D) simulations reproduced the approximately threefold reduction in yield found for the non-Saturn PDD capsules. Preliminary simulations for a NIF Saturn design predict a high gain close to the 1D prediction. These results increase the prospects of obtaining direct-drive ignition with the initial NIF configuration. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.
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