Search Results - "Berzak Hopkins, L. F."
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High-adiabat high-foot inertial confinement fusion implosion experiments on the national ignition facility
Published in Physical review letters (05-02-2014)“…This Letter reports on a series of high-adiabat implosions of cryogenic layered deuterium-tritium (DT) capsules indirectly driven by a "high-foot" laser drive…”
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Design of a high-foot high-adiabat ICF capsule for the national ignition facility
Published in Physical review letters (05-02-2014)“…The National Ignition Campaign's [M. J. Edwards et al., Phys. Plasmas 20, 070501 (2013)] point design implosion has achieved DT neutron yields of 7.5×10(14)…”
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Development of Improved Radiation Drive Environment for High Foot Implosions at the National Ignition Facility
Published in Physical review letters (25-11-2016)“…Analyses of high foot implosions show that performance is limited by the radiation drive environment, i.e., the hohlraum. Reported here are significant…”
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First high-convergence cryogenic implosion in a near-vacuum hohlraum
Published in Physical review letters (01-05-2015)“…Recent experiments on the National Ignition Facility [M. J. Edwards et al., Phys. Plasmas 20, 070501 (2013)] demonstrate that utilizing a near-vacuum hohlraum…”
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First Liquid Layer Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions at the National Ignition Facility
Published in Physical review letters (07-12-2016)“…The first cryogenic deuterium and deuterium-tritium liquid layer implosions at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) demonstrate D_{2} and DT layer inertial…”
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Multibeam seeded brillouin sidescatter in inertial confinement fusion experiments
Published in Physical review letters (27-03-2015)“…We present the first observations of multibeam weakly seeded Brillouin sidescatter in indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments. Two seeding…”
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Neutron Time-of-Flight Measurements of Charged-Particle Energy Loss in Inertial Confinement Fusion Plasmas
Published in Physical review letters (17-10-2019)“…Neutron spectra from secondary H3(d,n)α reactions produced by an implosion of a deuterium-gas capsule at the National Ignition Facility have been measured with…”
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Fuel gain exceeding unity in an inertially confined fusion implosion
Published in Nature (London) (20-02-2014)“…Fusion fuel gains greater than unity — which are crucial to the generation of fusion energy — are achieved on the US National Ignition Facility using the…”
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Impact of Localized Radiative Loss on Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions
Published in Physical review letters (10-04-2020)“…The impact to fusion energy production due to the radiative loss from a localized mix in inertial confinement implosions using high density carbon capsule…”
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Fusion Energy Output Greater than the Kinetic Energy of an Imploding Shell at the National Ignition Facility
Published in Physical review letters (14-06-2018)“…A series of cryogenic, layered deuterium-tritium (DT) implosions have produced, for the first time, fusion energy output twice the peak kinetic energy of the…”
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Demonstration of High Performance in Layered Deuterium-Tritium Capsule Implosions in Uranium Hohlraums at the National Ignition Facility
Published in Physical review letters (28-07-2015)“…We report on the first layered deuterium-tritium (DT) capsule implosions indirectly driven by a "high-foot" laser pulse that were fielded in depleted uranium…”
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Plasma stopping-power measurements reveal transition from non-degenerate to degenerate plasmas
Published in Nature physics (01-04-2020)“…Physically realized electron gas systems usually reside in either the quantum non-degenerate or fully degenerate limit, where the average de Broglie wavelength…”
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Differential ablator-fuel adiabat tuning in indirect-drive implosions
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (09-03-2015)“…We propose a design adjustment to the high foot laser pulse [T. R. Dittrich et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 055002 (2014)] that is predicted to lower the fuel…”
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Thin shell, high velocity inertial confinement fusion implosions on the national ignition facility
Published in Physical review letters (10-04-2015)“…Experiments have recently been conducted at the National Ignition Facility utilizing inertial confinement fusion capsule ablators that are 175 and 165 μm in…”
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Yield and compression trends and reproducibility at NIF
Published in High energy density physics (01-08-2020)“…The yield and fuel compression trends for the NIF indirect-drive cryogenically-layered DT implosions is empirically examined across all ablators (CH, C and Be)…”
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Plasma stopping-power measurements reveal transition from non-degenerate to degenerate plasmas
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Optimization of capsule dopant levels to improve fuel areal density
Published in High energy density physics (01-11-2020)“…Fuel areal density (ρR) of all recent indirectly driven, cryogenically-layered DT implosions at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) show a deficit when…”
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Publisher's Note: Development of improved radiation drive environment for high foot implosions at the National Ignition Facility [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 225002 (2016)]
Published in Physical review letters (24-02-2017)“…This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.225002…”
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Developing one-dimensional implosions for inertial confinement fusion science
Published in High power laser science and engineering (2016)“…Experiments on the National Ignition Facility show that multi-dimensional effects currently dominate the implosion performance. Low mode implosion symmetry and…”
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Getting beyond unity fusion 'fuel-gain' in an inertially confined fusion implosion
Published in 2015 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (01-05-2015)“…In this talk, we will discuss the progress towards ignition on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in…”
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