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The role of a detailed configuration accounting (DCA) atomic physics package in explaining the energy balance in ignition-scale hohlraums
M. D. Rosen,Howard A. Scott,D. E. Hinkel,E. A. Williams,Debra Callahan,Richard Town,Laurent Divol,Pierre Michel,William L. Kruer,L. J. Suter,Richard A. London,J. A. Harte,George B. Zimmerman +12 more
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The High Flux Model (HFM) as discussed by the authors was used in the National Ignition Campaign (NIC) gas-filled/capsule-imploding hohlraum energetics campaign.About:
This article is published in High Energy Density Physics.The article was published on 2011-09-01. It has received 148 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hohlraum.read more
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Review of the National Ignition Campaign 2009-2012
TL;DR: The National Ignition Campaign (NIC) as mentioned in this paper was a multi-institution effort established under the National Nuclear Security Administration of DOE in 2005, prior to the completion of the NIF in 2009.
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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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Implosion dynamics measurements at the National Ignition Facility
Damien Hicks,Nathan Meezan,E. L. Dewald,A. J. Mackinnon,R. E. Olson,D. A. Callahan,Tilo Döppner,Laura Robin Benedetti,D. K. Bradley,Peter M. Celliers,Daniel Clark,P. Di Nicola,S. N. Dixit,E. G. Dzenitis,J Eggert,David R. Farley,Johan Frenje,S. M. Glenn,Siegfried Glenzer,A. V. Hamza,Robert Heeter,J. P. Holder,Nobuhiko Izumi,Daniel H. Kalantar,Shahab Khan,John Kline,Jeremy Kroll,G. A. Kyrala,T. Ma,Andrew MacPhee,James McNaney,J. D. Moody,Michael J. Moran,B. R. Nathan,A. Nikroo,Yekaterina Opachich,R. D. Petrasso,Rachna Prasad,Joseph Ralph,Harry Robey,H. G. Rinderknecht,J. R. Rygg,Jay D. Salmonson,Marilyn Schneider,N. Simanovskaia,Brian Spears,R. Tommasini,Klaus Widmann,Alex Zylstra,Gilbert Collins,Otto Landen,J. D. Kilkenny,W. W. Hsing,B. J. MacGowan,L. J. Atherton,Melissa Edwards +55 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a suite of ablator performance parameters, including the time-resolved radius, velocity, mass, and thickness, have been determined throughout the acceleration history of surrogate gas-filled implosions.
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High-density carbon ablator experiments on the National Ignition Facilitya)
A. J. Mackinnon,N. B. Meezan,James Ross,S. Le Pape,L. Berzak Hopkins,L. Divol,Darwin Ho,J. Milovich,A. Pak,J. E. Ralph,T. Döppner,P. K. Patel,Cliff Thomas,R. Tommasini,S. Haan,A. G. MacPhee,J. McNaney,J. Caggiano,R. Hatarik,R. Bionta,T. Ma,B. Spears,J. R. Rygg,L. R. Benedetti,R. P. J. Town,D. K. Bradley,E. L. Dewald,D. Fittinghoff,O. S. Jones,H. R. Robey,J. D. Moody,S. Khan,D. A. Callahan,A. Hamza,J. Biener,P. M. Celliers,D. G. Braun,D. J. Erskine,S. T. Prisbrey,R. J. Wallace,B. Kozioziemski,R. Dylla-Spears,J. Sater,Gilbert Collins,E. Storm,W. Hsing,O. Landen,J. L. Atherton,J. D. Lindl,Melissa Edwards,Johan Frenje,Maria Gatu-Johnson,C. K. Li,R. D. Petrasso,Hans Rinderknecht,Michael Rosenberg,Fredrick Seguin,Alex Zylstra,J. P. Knauer,G. Grim,N. Guler,F. Merrill,R. Olson,G. A. Kyrala,J. D. Kilkenny,Abbas Nikroo,K. A. Moreno,D. Hoover,C. Wild,E. Werner +69 more
TL;DR: In this article, a series of experiments carried out to examine the feasibility of using high density carbon (HDC) as an ablator using both gas filled hohlraums and lower density, near vacuum hohlrasums is described.
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A high-resolution integrated model of the National Ignition Campaign cryogenic layered experimentsa)
O. S. Jones,C. J. Cerjan,M. M. Marinak,Jose Milovich,Harry Robey,P. T. Springer,Laura Robin Benedetti,D. L. Bleuel,E. J. Bond,D. K. Bradley,Debra Callahan,J. A. Caggiano,Peter M. Celliers,Daniel Clark,S. M. Dixit,Tilo Döppner,Rebecca Dylla-Spears,E. G. Dzentitis,David R. Farley,S. M. Glenn,S. H. Glenzer,S. W. Haan,B. J. Haid,C. A. Haynam,Damien Hicks,B. J. Kozioziemski,K. N. LaFortune,Otto Landen,Evan Mapoles,A. J. Mackinnon,James McNaney,Nathan Meezan,Pierre Michel,J. D. Moody,Michael J. Moran,D. H. Munro,M. V. Patel,T. G. Parham,J. D. Sater,Scott Sepke,Brian Spears,Richard Town,S. V. Weber,Klaus Widmann,C. C. Widmayer,E. A. Williams,L. J. Atherton,Melissa Edwards,J. D. Lindl,B. J. MacGowan,L. J. Suter,R. E. Olson,Hans W. Herrmann,John Kline,George A. Kyrala,Doug Wilson,J. A. Frenje,T. R. Boehly,V. Y. Glebov,J. P. Knauer,A. Nikroo,H. Wilkens,J. D. Kilkenny +62 more
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed simulation-based model of the June 2011 National Ignition Campaign cryogenic DT experiments is presented, which is based on integrated hohlraum-capsule simulations that utilize the best available models for the HLS, ablator, and DT equations of state and opacities.
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