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Physics principles of inertial confinement fusion and U.S. program overview by Hurricane, O. A., Patel, P. K., Betti, R., Froula, D. H., Regan, S. P., Slutz, S. A., Gomez, M. R., Sweeney, M. A.

“…Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) has existed as a field of study since the 1970s, but the field was born out of the Cold War. In the decades since the 1960s,…”
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Azimuthal Drive Asymmetry in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions on the National Ignition Facility by Rinderknecht, Hans G, Casey, D T, Hatarik, R, Bionta, R M, MacGowan, B J, Patel, P, Landen, O L, Hartouni, E P, Hurricane, O A

“…Data from nuclear diagnostics present correlated signatures of azimuthal implosion asymmetry in recent indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion (ICF)…”
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High-adiabat high-foot inertial confinement fusion implosion experiments on the national ignition facility by Park, H-S, Hurricane, O A, Callahan, D A, Casey, D T, Dewald, E L, Dittrich, T R, Döppner, T, Hinkel, D E, Berzak Hopkins, L F, Le Pape, S, Ma, T, Patel, P K, Remington, B A, Robey, H F, Salmonson, J D, Kline, J L

“…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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Evidence of Three-Dimensional Asymmetries Seeded by High-Density Carbon-Ablator Nonuniformity in Experiments at the National Ignition Facility by Casey, D T, MacGowan, B J, Sater, J D, Zylstra, A B, Landen, O L, Milovich, J, Hurricane, O A, Kritcher, A L, Hohenberger, M, Baker, K, Le Pape, S, Döppner, T, Weber, C, Huang, H, Kong, C, Biener, J, Young, C V, Haan, S, Nora, R C, Ross, S, Robey, H, Stadermann, M, Nikroo, A, Callahan, D A, Bionta, R M, Hahn, K D, Moore, A S, Schlossberg, D, Bruhn, M, Sequoia, K, Rice, N, Farrell, M, Wild, C

“…Inertial confinement fusion implosions must achieve high in-flight shell velocity, sufficient energy coupling between the hot spot and imploding shell, and…”
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Design of a high-foot high-adiabat ICF capsule for the national ignition facility by Dittrich, T R, Hurricane, O A, Callahan, D A, Dewald, E L, Döppner, T, Hinkel, D E, Berzak Hopkins, L F, Le Pape, S, Ma, T, Milovich, J L, Moreno, J C, Patel, P K, Park, H-S, Remington, B A, Salmonson, J D, Kline, J L

“…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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Record Energetics for an Inertial Fusion Implosion at NIF by Zylstra, A B, Kritcher, A L, Hurricane, O A, Callahan, D A, Baker, K, Braun, T, Casey, D T, Clark, D, Clark, K, Döppner, T, Divol, L, Hinkel, D E, Hohenberger, M, Kong, C, Landen, O L, Nikroo, A, Pak, A, Patel, P, Ralph, J E, Rice, N, Tommasini, R, Schoff, M, Stadermann, M, Strozzi, D, Weber, C, Young, C, Wild, C, Town, R P J, Edwards, M J

“…Inertial confinement fusion seeks to create burning plasma conditions in a spherical capsule implosion, which requires efficiently absorbing the driver energy…”
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Impact of Localized Radiative Loss on Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions by Pak, A, Divol, L, Weber, C R, Hopkins, L F Berzak, Clark, D S, Dewald, E L, Fittinghoff, D N, Geppert-Kleinrath, V, Hohenberger, M, Le Pape, S, Ma, T, MacPhee, A G, Mariscal, D A, Marley, E, Moore, A S, Pickworth, L A, Volegov, P L, Wilde, C, Hurricane, O A, Patel, P K

“…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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Inertial-confinement fusion with lasers by Betti, R., Hurricane, O. A.

“…The quest for controlled fusion energy has been ongoing for over a half century. The demonstration of ignition and energy gain from thermonuclear fuels in the…”
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Development of Improved Radiation Drive Environment for High Foot Implosions at the National Ignition Facility by Hinkel, D E, Berzak Hopkins, L F, Ma, T, Ralph, J E, Albert, F, Benedetti, L R, Celliers, P M, Döppner, T, Goyon, C S, Izumi, N, Jarrott, L C, Khan, S F, Kline, J L, Kritcher, A L, Kyrala, G A, Nagel, S R, Pak, A E, Patel, P, Rosen, M D, Rygg, J R, Schneider, M B, Turnbull, D P, Yeamans, C B, Callahan, D A, Hurricane, O A

“…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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Generation and Beaming of Early Hot Electrons onto the Capsule in Laser-Driven Ignition Hohlraums by Dewald, E L, Hartemann, F, Michel, P, Milovich, J, Hohenberger, M, Pak, A, Landen, O L, Divol, L, Robey, H F, Hurricane, O A, Döppner, T, Albert, F, Bachmann, B, Meezan, N B, MacKinnon, A J, Callahan, D, Edwards, M J

“…In hohlraums for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions on the National Ignition Facility, suprathermal hot electrons, generated by laser plasma…”
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Performance and Mix Measurements of Indirect Drive Cu-Doped Be Implosions by Casey, D T, Woods, D T, Smalyuk, V A, Hurricane, O A, Glebov, V Y, Stoeckl, C, Theobald, W, Wallace, R, Nikroo, A, Schoff, M, Shuldberg, C, Wu, K J, Frenje, J A, Landen, O L, Remington, B A, Glendinning, G

“…The ablator couples energy between the driver and fusion fuel in inertial confinement fusion (ICF). Because of its low opacity, high solid density, and…”
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Fuel gain exceeding unity in an inertially confined fusion implosion by Hurricane, O. A., Callahan, D. A., Casey, D. T., Celliers, P. M., Cerjan, C., Dewald, E. L., Dittrich, T. R., Döppner, T., Hinkel, D. E., Hopkins, L. F. Berzak, Kline, J. L., Le Pape, S., Ma, T., MacPhee, A. G., Milovich, J. L., Pak, A., Park, H.-S., Patel, P. K., Remington, B. A., Salmonson, J. D., Springer, P. T., Tommasini, R.

“…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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Energy Principles of Scientific Breakeven in an Inertial Fusion Experiment by Hurricane, O A, Callahan, D A, Casey, D T, Christopherson, A R, Kritcher, A L, Landen, O L, Maclaren, S A, Nora, R, Patel, P K, Ralph, J, Schlossberg, D, Springer, P T, Young, C V, Zylstra, A B

“…Fusion "scientific breakeven" (i.e., unity target gain G_{target}, total fusion energy out > laser energy input) has been achieved for the first time (here,…”
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High-Performance Indirect-Drive Cryogenic Implosions at High Adiabat on the National Ignition Facility by Baker, K L, Thomas, C A, Casey, D T, Khan, S, Spears, B K, Nora, R, Woods, T, Milovich, J L, Berger, R L, Strozzi, D, Clark, D, Hohenberger, M, Hurricane, O A, Callahan, D A, Landen, O L, Bachmann, B, Benedetti, R, Bionta, R, Celliers, P M, Fittinghoff, D, Goyon, C, Grim, G, Hatarik, R, Izumi, N, Gatu Johnson, M, Kyrala, G, Ma, T, Millot, M, Nagel, S R, Pak, A, Patel, P K, Turnbull, D, Volegov, P L, Yeamans, C

“…To reach the pressures and densities required for ignition, it may be necessary to develop an approach to design that makes it easier for simulations to guide…”
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Plasma stopping-power measurements reveal transition from non-degenerate to degenerate plasmas by Hayes, A. C., Gooden, M. E., Henry, E., Jungman, Gerard, Wilhelmy, J. B., Rundberg, R. S., Yeamans, C., Kyrala, G., Cerjan, C., Danielson, D. L., Daligault, Jérôme, Wilburn, C., Volegov, P., Wilde, C., Batha, S., Bredeweg, T., Kline, J. L., Grim, G. P., Hartouni, E. P., Shaughnessy, D., Velsko, C., Cassata, W. S., Moody, K., Berzak Hopkins, L. F., Hinkel, D., Döppner, T., Le Pape, S., Graziani, F., Callahan, D. A., Hurricane, O. A., Schneider, D.

“…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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Observation of a Kelvin-helmholtz instability in a high-energy-density plasma on the omega laser by Harding, E C, Hansen, J F, Hurricane, O A, Drake, R P, Robey, H F, Kuranz, C C, Remington, B A, Bono, M J, Grosskopf, M J, Gillespie, R S

“…A laser initiated experiment is described in which an unstable plasma shear layer is produced by driving a blast wave along a plastic surface with sinusoidal…”
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Experiments to Produce a Hydrodynamically Unstable, Spherically Diverging System of Relevance to Instabilities in Supernovae by Drake, R. P, Robey, H. F, Hurricane, O. A, Zhang, Y, Remington, B. A, Knauer, J, Glimm, J, Arnett, D, Kane, J. O, Budil, K. S, Grove, J

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Substorm detonation by Hurricane, O. A., Fong, B. H., Cowley, S. C., Coroniti, F. V., Kennel, C. F., Pellat, R.

“…The rapid, Alfvénic timescale of “onset” has been an enigma ever since magnetospheric substorms were first identified. Investigators have proposed a variety of…”
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Validation of a turbulent Kelvin-Helmholtz shear layer model using a high-energy-density OMEGA laser experiment by Hurricane, O A, Smalyuk, V A, Raman, K, Schilling, O, Hansen, J F, Langstaff, G, Martinez, D, Park, H-S, Remington, B A, Robey, H F, Greenough, J A, Wallace, R, Di Stefano, C A, Drake, R P, Marion, D, Krauland, C M, Kuranz, C C

“…Following the successful demonstration of an OMEGA laser-driven platform for generating and studying nearly two-dimensional unstable plasma shear layers…”
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The inviscid incompressible limit of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability for plasmas by Briard, A., Ripoll, J.-F., Michael, A., Gréa, B.-J., Peyrichon, G., Cosmides, M., El-Rabii, H., Faganello, M., Merkin, V. G., Sorathia, K. A., Ukhorskiy, A. Y., Lyon, J. G., Retino, A., Bouffetier, V., Ceurvorst, L., Sio, H., Hurricane, O. A., Smalyuk, V. A., Casner, A.

“…Introduction: The Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability (KHI) is an interface instability that develops between two fluids or plasmas flowing with a common shear layer…”
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