Search Results - "Amendt, P."
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Charged-Particle Probing of X-ray-Driven Inertial-Fusion Implosions
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-03-2010)“…Measurements of x-ray-driven implosions with charged particles have resulted in the quantitative characterization of critical aspects of indirect-drive…”
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Exploration of the transition from the hydrodynamiclike to the strongly kinetic regime in shock-driven implosions
Published in Physical review letters (09-05-2014)“…Clear evidence of the transition from hydrodynamiclike to strongly kinetic shock-driven implosions is, for the first time, revealed and quantitatively…”
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Highly Resolved Measurements of a Developing Strong Collisional Plasma Shock
Published in Physical review letters (02-03-2018)“…The structure of a strong collisional shock front forming in a plasma is directly probed for the first time in laser-driven gas-jet experiments. Thomson…”
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Evidence for suprathermal ion distribution in burning plasmas
Published in Nature physics (01-01-2023)“…At the National Ignition Facility, inertial confinement fusion experiments aim to burn and ignite a hydrogen plasma to generate a net source of energy through…”
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Scaled laboratory experiments explain the kink behaviour of the Crab Nebula jet
Published in Nature communications (07-10-2016)“…The remarkable discovery by the Chandra X-ray observatory that the Crab nebula’s jet periodically changes direction provides a challenge to our understanding…”
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Observations of Multiple Nuclear Reaction Histories and Fuel-Ion Species Dynamics in Shock-Driven Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions
Published in Physical review letters (25-01-2019)“…Fuel-ion species dynamics in hydrodynamiclike shock-driven DT^{3}He-filled inertial confinement fusion implosion is quantitatively assessed for the first time…”
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Enhanced energy coupling for indirectly driven inertial confinement fusion
Published in Nature physics (01-02-2019)“…Recent experiments in the study of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the United States have reached the so-called…”
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First observations of nonhydrodynamic mix at the fuel-shell interface in shock-driven inertial confinement implosions
Published in Physical review letters (01-04-2014)“…A strong nonhydrodynamic mechanism generating atomic fuel-shell mix has been observed in strongly shocked inertial confinement fusion implosions of thin…”
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Ion thermal decoupling and species separation in shock-driven implosions
Published in Physical review letters (16-01-2015)“…Anomalous reduction of the fusion yields by 50% and anomalous scaling of the burn-averaged ion temperatures with the ion-species fraction has been observed for…”
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Structure and dynamics of colliding plasma jets
Published in Physical review letters (03-12-2013)“…Monoenergetic-proton radiographs of laser-generated, high-Mach-number plasma jets colliding at various angles shed light on the structures and dynamics of…”
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Measuring E and B fields in laser-produced plasmas with monoenergetic proton radiography
Published in Physical review letters (29-09-2006)“…Electromagnetic (E/B) fields generated by the interaction with plasmas of long-pulse, low-intensity laser beams relevant to inertial confinement fusion have…”
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Evidence for stratification of deuterium-tritium fuel in inertial confinement fusion implosions
Published in Physical review letters (15-02-2012)“…Measurements of the D(d,p)T (dd) and T(t,2n)(4)He (tt) reaction yields have been compared with those of the D(t,n)(4)He (dt) reaction yield, using…”
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Observations of electromagnetic fields and plasma flow in hohlraums with proton radiography
Published in Physical review letters (22-05-2009)“…We report on the first proton radiography of laser-irradiated hohlraums. This experiment, with vacuum gold (Au) hohlraums, resulted in observations of…”
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Lorentz mapping of magnetic fields in hot dense plasmas
Published in Physical review letters (21-08-2009)“…Unique detection of electromagnetic fields and identification of field type and strength as a function of position were used to determine the nature of…”
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Impeding hohlraum plasma stagnation in inertial-confinement fusion
Published in Physical review letters (11-01-2012)“…This Letter reports the first time-gated proton radiography of the spatial structure and temporal evolution of how the fill gas compresses the wall blowoff,…”
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Observation of the decay dynamics and instabilities of megagauss field structures in laser-produced plasmas
Published in Physical review letters (06-07-2007)“…Monoenergetic proton radiography was used to make the first measurements of the long-time-scale dynamics and evolution of megagauss laser-plasma-generated…”
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Experimental demonstration of X-ray drive enhancement with rugby-shaped hohlraums
Published in Physical review letters (22-01-2010)“…Rugby-shaped hohlraums have been suggested as a way to enhance x-ray drive in the indirect drive approach to inertial confinement fusion. This Letter presents…”
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Observation of strong electromagnetic fields around laser-entrance holes of ignition-scale hohlraums in inertial-confinement fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility
Published in New journal of physics (27-02-2013)“…Energy spectra and spectrally resolved one-dimensional fluence images of self-emitted charged-fusion products (14.7 MeV D3He protons) are routinely measured…”
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Lead (Pb) Hohlraum: Target for Inertial Fusion Energy
Published in Scientific reports (14-03-2013)“…Recent progress towards demonstrating inertial confinement fusion (ICF) ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has sparked wide interest in Laser…”
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Hohlraum-driven mid-Z (SiO2) double-shell implosions on the omega laser facility and their scaling to NIF
Published in Physical review letters (02-10-2009)“…High-convergence, hohlraum-driven implosions of double-shell capsules using mid-Z (SiO2) inner shells have been performed on the OMEGA laser facility [T. R…”
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