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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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Observation of magnetic field generation via the Weibel instability in interpenetrating plasma flows by Huntington, C. M., Fiuza, F., Ross, J. S., Zylstra, A. B., Drake, R. P., Froula, D. H., Gregori, G., Kugland, N. L., Kuranz, C. C., Levy, M. C., Li, C. K., Meinecke, J., Morita, T., Petrasso, R., Plechaty, C., Remington, B. A., Ryutov, D. D., Sakawa, Y., Spitkovsky, A., Takabe, H., Park, H.-S.

“…Astrophysical processes are often driven by collisionless plasma shock waves. The Weibel instability, a possible mechanism for developing such shocks, has now…”
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Measurement of charged-particle stopping in warm dense plasma by Zylstra, A B, Frenje, J A, Grabowski, P E, Li, C K, Collins, G W, Fitzsimmons, P, Glenzer, S, Graziani, F, Hansen, S B, Hu, S X, Johnson, M Gatu, Keiter, P, Reynolds, H, Rygg, J R, Séguin, F H, Petrasso, R D

“…We measured the stopping of energetic protons in an isochorically heated solid-density Be plasma with an electron temperature of ∼32  eV, corresponding to…”
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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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Measurements of Ion Stopping Around the Bragg Peak in High-Energy-Density Plasmas by Frenje, J A, Grabowski, P E, Li, C K, Séguin, F H, Zylstra, A B, Gatu Johnson, M, Petrasso, R D, Glebov, V Yu, Sangster, T C

“…For the first time, quantitative measurements of ion stopping at energies around the Bragg peak (or peak ion stopping, which occurs at an ion velocity…”
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Demonstration of Scale-Invariant Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth in Laser-Driven Cylindrical Implosion Experiments by Sauppe, J P, Palaniyappan, S, Tobias, B J, Kline, J L, Flippo, K A, Landen, O L, Shvarts, D, Batha, S H, Bradley, P A, Loomis, E N, Vazirani, N N, Kawaguchi, C F, Kot, L, Schmidt, D W, Day, T H, Zylstra, A B, Malka, E

“…Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth is shown to be hydrodynamically scale invariant in convergent cylindrical implosions for targets that varied in radial…”
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Slowing of Magnetic Reconnection Concurrent with Weakening Plasma Inflows and Increasing Collisionality in Strongly Driven Laser-Plasma Experiments by Rosenberg, M J, Li, C K, Fox, W, Zylstra, A B, Stoeckl, C, Séguin, F H, Frenje, J A, Petrasso, R D

“…An evolution of magnetic reconnection behavior, from fast jets to the slowing of reconnection and the establishment of a stable current sheet, has been…”
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Hohlraum Reheating from Burning NIF Implosions by Rubery, M S, Rosen, M D, Aybar, N, Landen, O L, Divol, L, Young, C V, Weber, C, Hammer, J, Moody, J D, Moore, A S, Kritcher, A L, Zylstra, A B, Hurricane, O, Pak, A E, MacLaren, S, Zimmerman, G, Harte, J, Woods, T

“…As fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) approach and exceed breakeven, energy from the burning capsule is predicted to couple to the gold…”
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Transition from Collisional to Collisionless Regimes in Interpenetrating Plasma Flows on the National Ignition Facility by Ross, J S, Higginson, D P, Ryutov, D, Fiuza, F, Hatarik, R, Huntington, C M, Kalantar, D H, Link, A, Pollock, B B, Remington, B A, Rinderknecht, H G, Swadling, G F, Turnbull, D P, Weber, S, Wilks, S, Froula, D H, Rosenberg, M J, Morita, T, Sakawa, Y, Takabe, H, Drake, R P, Kuranz, C, Gregori, G, Meinecke, J, Levy, M C, Koenig, M, Spitkovsky, A, Petrasso, R D, Li, C K, Sio, H, Lahmann, B, Zylstra, A B, Park, H-S

“…A study of the transition from collisional to collisionless plasma flows has been carried out at the National Ignition Facility using high Mach number (M>4)…”
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Dynamics and Power Balance of Near Unity Target Gain Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions by Pak, A., Divol, L., Casey, D. T., Khan, S. F., Kritcher, A. L., Ralph, J. E., Tommasini, R., Trosseille, C., Zylstra, A. B., Baker, K. L., Birge, N. W., Bionta, R., Bachmann, B., Dewald, E. L., Doeppner, T., Freeman, M. S., Fittinghoff, D. N., Geppert-Kleinrath, V., Geppert-Kleinrath, H., Hahn, K. D., Hohenberger, M., Holder, J., Kerr, S., Kim, Y., Kozioziemski, B., Lamb, K., MacGowan, B. J., MacPhee, A. G., Meaney, K. D., Moore, A. S., Schlossberg, D. J., Stoupin, S., Volegov, P., Wilde, C., Young, C. V., Landen, O. L., Town, R. P. J.

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First Liquid Layer Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions at the National Ignition Facility by Olson, R E, Leeper, R J, Kline, J L, Zylstra, A B, Yi, S A, Biener, J, Braun, T, Kozioziemski, B J, Sater, J D, Bradley, P A, Peterson, R R, Haines, B M, Yin, L, Berzak Hopkins, L F, Meezan, N B, Walters, C, Biener, M M, Kong, C, Crippen, J W, Kyrala, G A, Shah, R C, Herrmann, H W, Wilson, D C, Hamza, A V, Nikroo, A, Batha, S H

“…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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First observations of nonhydrodynamic mix at the fuel-shell interface in shock-driven inertial confinement implosions by Rinderknecht, H G, Sio, H, Li, C K, Zylstra, A B, Rosenberg, M J, Amendt, P, Delettrez, J, Bellei, C, Frenje, J A, Gatu Johnson, M, Séguin, F H, Petrasso, R D, Betti, R, Glebov, V Yu, Meyerhofer, D D, Sangster, T C, Stoeckl, C, Landen, O, Smalyuk, V A, Wilks, S, Greenwood, A, Nikroo, A

“…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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Scaled laboratory experiments explain the kink behaviour of the Crab Nebula jet by Li, C. K., Tzeferacos, P., Lamb, D., Gregori, G., Norreys, P. A., Rosenberg, M. J., Follett, R. K., Froula, D. H., Koenig, M., Seguin, F. H., Frenje, J. A., Rinderknecht, H. G., Sio, H., Zylstra, A. B., Petrasso, R. D., Amendt, P. A., Park, H. S., Remington, B. A., Ryutov, D. D., Wilks, S. C., Betti, R., Frank, A., Hu, S. X., Sangster, T. C., Hartigan, P., Drake, R. P., Kuranz, C. C., Lebedev, S. V., Woolsey, N. C.

“…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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Ion thermal decoupling and species separation in shock-driven implosions by Rinderknecht, Hans G, Rosenberg, M J, Li, C K, Hoffman, N M, Kagan, G, Zylstra, A B, Sio, H, Frenje, J A, Gatu Johnson, M, Séguin, F H, Petrasso, R D, Amendt, P, Bellei, C, Wilks, S, Delettrez, J, Glebov, V Yu, Stoeckl, C, Sangster, T C, Meyerhofer, D D, Nikroo, A

“…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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Self-Similar Structure and Experimental Signatures of Suprathermal Ion Distribution in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions by Kagan, Grigory, Svyatskiy, D, Rinderknecht, H G, Rosenberg, M J, Zylstra, A B, Huang, C-K, McDevitt, C J

“…The distribution function of suprathermal ions is found to be self-similar under conditions relevant to inertial confinement fusion hot spots. By utilizing…”
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Exploration of the transition from the hydrodynamiclike to the strongly kinetic regime in shock-driven implosions by Rosenberg, M J, Rinderknecht, H G, Hoffman, N M, Amendt, P A, Atzeni, S, Zylstra, A B, Li, C K, Séguin, F H, Sio, H, Johnson, M Gatu, Frenje, J A, Petrasso, R D, Glebov, V Yu, Stoeckl, C, Seka, W, Marshall, F J, Delettrez, J A, Sangster, T C, Betti, R, Goncharov, V N, Meyerhofer, D D, Skupsky, S, Bellei, C, Pino, J, Wilks, S C, Kagan, G, Molvig, K, Nikroo, A

“…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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Neutron Time-of-Flight Measurements of Charged-Particle Energy Loss in Inertial Confinement Fusion Plasmas by Sayre, D. B., Cerjan, C. J., Sepke, S. M., Gericke, D. O., Caggiano, J. A., Divol, L., Eckart, M. J., Graziani, F. R., Grim, G. P., Hansen, S. B., Hartouni, E. P., Hatarik, R., Hatchett, S. P., Hayes, A. K., Hopkins, L. F. Berzak, Johnson, M. Gatu, Khan, S. F., Knauer, J. P., Le Pape, S., MacKinnon, A. J., McNaney, J. M., Meezan, N. B., Rinderknecht, H. G., Shaughnessy, D. A., Stoeffl, W., Yeamans, C. B., Zylstra, A. B., Schneider, D. H.

“…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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Experimental Evidence of a Variant Neutron Spectrum from the T(t,2n)α Reaction at Center-of-Mass Energies in the Range of 16-50 keV by Gatu Johnson, M, Forrest, C J, Sayre, D B, Bacher, A, Bourgade, J-L, Brune, C R, Caggiano, J A, Casey, D T, Frenje, J A, Glebov, V Yu, Hale, G M, Hatarik, R, Herrmann, H W, Janezic, R, Kim, Y H, Knauer, J P, Landoas, O, McNabb, D P, Paris, M W, Petrasso, R D, Pino, J E, Quaglioni, S, Rosse, B, Sanchez, J, Sangster, T C, Sio, H, Shmayda, W, Stoeckl, C, Thompson, I, Zylstra, A B

“…Full calculations of six-nucleon reactions with a three-body final state have been elusive and a long-standing issue. We present neutron spectra from the…”
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Structure and dynamics of colliding plasma jets by Li, C K, Ryutov, D D, Hu, S X, Rosenberg, M J, Zylstra, A B, Séguin, F H, Frenje, J A, Casey, D T, Johnson, M Gatu, Manuel, M J-E, Rinderknecht, H G, Petrasso, R D, Amendt, P A, Park, H S, Remington, B A, Wilks, S C, Betti, R, Froula, D H, Knauer, J P, Meyerhofer, D D, Drake, R P, Kuranz, C C, Young, R, Koenig, M

“…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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Total energy loss to fast ablator-ions and target capacitance of direct-drive implosions on OMEGA by Sinenian, N., Zylstra, A. B., Manuel, M. J.-E., Rinderknecht, H. G., Frenje, J. A., Séguin, F. H., Li, C. K., Petrasso, R. D., Goncharov, V., Delettrez, J., Igumenshchev, I. V., Froula, D. H., Stoeckl, C., Sangster, T. C., Meyerhofer, D. D., Cobble, J. A., Hicks, D. G.

“…Measurements of the total energy carried by fast ablator-ions in direct-drive implosions on OMEGA have been conducted using magnetic and Thomson Parabola…”
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