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Progress on magnetized ignition experiments at the National Ignition Facility

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Abstract

Magnetized indirect-drive implosions of D2-gas-filled capsules on NIF show a 40% ion-temperature increase and 3.2x neutron-yield increase due to reduced electron thermal conduction [Moody, 2022 submitted]. Similar increases in hot-spot temperature and yield are expected for magnetized DT cryo-layered implosions currently being planned for NIF. This talk will summarize current NIF and Omega experiments that are investigating high-energy-density-physics issues relevant to magnetized ignition. We will also outline the status of implementing magnetized DT-layered implosions on NIF.



This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344 and LDRD project SI-2020-002.

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Publication: Planning to submit a paper on this work before the conference.

Presenters

  • John D Moody

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

Authors

  • John D Moody

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Brad B Pollock

    LLNL, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • H. Sio

    Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, LLNL

  • David J Strozzi

    Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, LLNL

  • Darwin D Ho

    Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, LLNL

  • Christopher A Walsh

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Gregory E Kemp

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Yuan Shi

    LLNL, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Sergei O Kucheyev

    LLNL, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Jeremy Kroll

    LLNL

  • Bernard Kozioziemski

    Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, LLNL

  • Vincent Tang

    LLNL

  • Jay Javedani

    LLNL

  • William Stygar

    LLNL

  • Chris Provencher

    LLNL

  • Suhas D Bhandarkar

    LLNL

  • Jim D Sater

    LLNL, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Lisle Hagler

    LLNL

  • Burl G Logan

    LLNL

  • Brandon J Lahmann

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLNL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Scott E Winters

    LLNL

  • Edward P Hartouni

    Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, LLNL

  • Laurent Divol

    Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, LLNL

  • Jeremy P Chittenden

    Imperial College London, Imperial College

  • Sam O'Neill

    Imperial College

  • Brian D Appelbe

    Imperial College London, Imperial College

  • Aidan Boxall

    Imperial College

  • Aidan C Crilly

    Imperial College London, Imperial College

  • Jonathan R Davies

    University of Rochester, UR-LLE, LLE, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

  • Jonathan L Peebles

    Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, UR-LLE

  • Arijit Bose

    University of Delaware, U Delaware

  • Shinsuke Fujioka

    ILE-Osaka, Osaka Univ