Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9845443 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
A crucial issue for the viability of the fast ignition approach to inertial fusion energy is the transport of the ignition pulse energy from the critical surface to the high-density compressed fuel. Experiments have characterized this transport through the interaction of short pulse, high intensity lasers with solid-density targets containing thin Kα fluorescence layers. These experiments show a reasonably well-collimated beam, although with a significantly larger radius than the incident laser beam. We report on LSP calculations of these experiments, which show reasonable agreement with the experimental observations.
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Authors
R.P.J. Town, C. Chen, L.A. Cottrill, M.H. Key, W.L. Kruer, A.B. Langdon, B.F. Lasinski, R.A. Snavely, C.H. Still, M. Tabak, D.R. Welch, S.C. Wilks,