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Richard Town
Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Publications - 196
Citations - 10400
Richard Town is an academic researcher from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: National Ignition Facility & Inertial confinement fusion. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 191 publications receiving 9159 citations.
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Point design targets, specifications, and requirements for the 2010 ignition campaign on the National Ignition Facility
S. W. Haan,J. D. Lindl,Debra Callahan,Daniel Clark,Jay D. Salmonson,B. A. Hammel,L. J. Atherton,Robert Cook,M. J. Edwards,Siegfried Glenzer,A. V. Hamza,S. P. Hatchett,Mark Herrmann,D. E. Hinkel,Darwin Ho,H. Huang,O. S. Jones,John Kline,G. A. Kyrala,Otto Landen,B. J. MacGowan,M. M. Marinak,D. D. Meyerhofer,Jose Milovich,K. A. Moreno,Edward I. Moses,D. H. Munro,A. Nikroo,R. E. Olson,Kyle Peterson,S. M. Pollaine,Joseph Ralph,Harry Robey,Brian Spears,P. T. Springer,L. J. Suter,Cliff Thomas,Richard Town,Roger Alan Vesey,S. V. Weber,H. Wilkens,Doug Wilson +41 more
TL;DR: Miller et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a point design for the initial ignition campaign on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) using D-T fusion fuel in an ablator of either CH with Ge doping, or Be with Cu.
Point Design Targets, Specifications, and Requirements for the 2010 Ignition Campaign on the National Ignition Facility
S. W. Haan,J. D. Lindl,Debra Callahan,David J. Clark,Jay D. Salmonson,B. A. Hammel,J. Atherton,Robert Cook,J. Edwards,Siegfried Glenzer,A. V. Hamza,S. P. Hatchett,D. E. Hinkel,Darwin Ho,O. S. Jones,Otto Landen,B. J. MacGowan,M. M. Marinak,Edward I. Moses,D. H. Munro,S. M. Pollaine,Brian Spears,P. T. Springer,L. J. Suter,Cliff Thomas,Richard Town,S. V. Weber,Doug Wilson,G. A. Kyrala,Mark Herrmann,R. E. Olson,Roger Alan Vesey,A. Nikroo,W Huang,K. A. Moreno +34 more
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Symmetric inertial confinement fusion implosions at ultra-high laser energies.
Siegfried Glenzer,B. J. MacGowan,Pierre Michel,Nathan Meezan,L. J. Suter,S. N. Dixit,John Kline,G. A. Kyrala,D. K. Bradley,D. A. Callahan,E. L. Dewald,Laurent Divol,E. G. Dzenitis,M. J. Edwards,Alex V. Hamza,C. A. Haynam,D. E. Hinkel,Daniel H. Kalantar,J. D. Kilkenny,Otto Landen,J. D. Lindl,Sebastien LePape,John Moody,Abbas Nikroo,T. G. Parham,Marilyn Schneider,Richard Town,Paul J. Wegner,Klaus Widmann,Pamela K. Whitman,B. K. F. Young,B. M. Van Wonterghem,L. J. Atherton,Edward I. Moses +33 more
TL;DR: Experiments at the National Ignition Facility indicate that the conditions are suitable for compressing deuterium-tritium–filled capsules, with the goal of achieving burning fusion plasmas and energy gain in the laboratory.
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Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility
M. J. Edwards,P. K. Patel,J. D. Lindl,L. J. Atherton,Siegfried Glenzer,S. W. Haan,J. D. Kilkenny,O. L. Landen,Edward I. Moses,A. Nikroo,R. D. Petrasso,T. C. Sangster,P. T. Springer,Steven H. Batha,R. Benedetti,L. A. Bernstein,Riccardo Betti,D. L. Bleuel,T. R. Boehly,D. K. Bradley,J. A. Caggiano,D. A. Callahan,P. M. Celliers,C. J. Cerjan,K. C. Chen,Daniel Clark,Gilbert Collins,E. L. Dewald,Laurent Divol,S. N. Dixit,Tilo Doeppner,D. H. Edgell,James E. Fair,Michael Farrell,R. J. Fortner,Johan Frenje,M. Gatu Johnson,E. M. Giraldez,V. Yu. Glebov,Gary Grim,B. A. Hammel,A. V. Hamza,D. R. Harding,S. P. Hatchett,N. Hein,Hans W. Herrmann,Damien Hicks,D. E. Hinkel,M. Hoppe,W. W. Hsing,Nobuhiko Izumi,B. Jacoby,O. S. Jones,Daniel H. Kalantar,Robert L. Kauffman,John Kline,J. P. Knauer,J. A. Koch,B. J. Kozioziemski,G. A. Kyrala,K. N. LaFortune,S. Le Pape,R. J. Leeper,R. A. Lerche,T. Ma,B. J. MacGowan,A. J. Mackinnon,Andrew MacPhee,Evan Mapoles,M. M. Marinak,M. Mauldin,P. W. McKenty,M. Meezan,Pierre Michel,Jose Milovich,J. D. Moody,Matthew Moran,D. H. Munro,C. L. Olson,Kathy Opachich,Art Pak,T. G. Parham,H.-S. Park,Joseph Ralph,Sean Regan,Bruce Remington,H. G. Rinderknecht,Harry Robey,M. D. Rosen,Steven Ross,Jay D. Salmonson,J. D. Sater,D. H. Schneider,Fredrick Seguin,Scott Sepke,D. A. Shaughnessy,V. A. Smalyuk,Brian Spears,Christian Stoeckl,Wolfgang Stoeffl,L. J. Suter,Cliff Thomas,R. Tommasini,Richard Town,S. V. Weber,Paul J. Wegner,K. Widman,Mark D. Wilke,Doug Wilson,Charles Yeamans,Alex Zylstra +110 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a low-Z capsule filled with deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel via laser indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion and demonstrate fusion ignition and propagating thermonuclear burn with a net energy gain of ∼5-10 (fusion yield/input laser energy).
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Onset of hydrodynamic mix in high-velocity, highly compressed inertial confinement fusion implosions.
T. Ma,P. K. Patel,Nobuhiko Izumi,P. T. Springer,M. H. Key,L. J. Atherton,Laura Robin Benedetti,D. K. Bradley,D. A. Callahan,P. M. Celliers,C. J. Cerjan,Daniel Clark,E. L. Dewald,S. N. Dixit,Tilo Döppner,D. H. Edgell,Reuben Epstein,S. M. Glenn,Gary Grim,S. W. Haan,B. A. Hammel,Damien Hicks,W. W. Hsing,O. S. Jones,Shahab Khan,J. D. Kilkenny,John Kline,G. A. Kyrala,Otto Landen,S. Le Pape,B. J. MacGowan,A. J. Mackinnon,Andrew MacPhee,Nathan Meezan,J. D. Moody,Art Pak,T. G. Parham,H.-S. Park,Joseph Ralph,Sean Regan,Bruce Remington,Harry Robey,Jason Ross,Brian Spears,V. A. Smalyuk,L. J. Suter,R. Tommasini,Richard Town,S. V. Weber,J. D. Lindl,Melissa Edwards,Siegfried Glenzer,Edward I. Moses +52 more
TL;DR: The comparison with radiation-hydrodynamic modeling indicates that low mode asymmetries and increased ablator surface perturbations may be responsible for the current performance of deuterium-tritium inertial confinement fusion implosion experiments.