First hohlraum drive studies on the National Ignition Facilitya)
First hohlraum drive studies on the National Ignition Facilitya)
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DOI:
10.1063/1.2178783
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发表时间:
2006-05
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2.2
通讯作者:
E. Dewald;O. Landen;L. Suter;J. Schein;J. Holder;K. Campbell;S. Glenzer;J. Mcdonald;C. Niemann;A. Mackinnon;M. Schneider;C. Haynam;D. Hinkel;B. Hammel
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作者:
E. Dewald;O. Landen;L. Suter;J. Schein;J. Holder;K. Campbell;S. Glenzer;J. Mcdonald;C. Niemann;A. Mackinnon;M. Schneider;C. Haynam;D. Hinkel;B. Hammel
The first hohlraum experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) [G. H. Miller, E. I. Moses, and C. R. Wuest, Nucl. Fusion 44, 228 (2004)] using the first four laser beams have activated the indirect-drive experimental capabilities and tested radiation temperature limits imposed by hohlraum plasma filling. Vacuum hohlraums have been irradiated with laser powers up to 9 TW, 1 to 9ns long square pulses and energies of up to 17kJ to study the hohlraum radiation temperature scaling with the laser power and hohlraum size, and to make contact with hohlraum experiments performed previously at other laser facilities. Furthermore, for a variety of hohlraum sizes and pulse lengths, the measured x-ray flux shows signatures of plasma filling that coincide with hard x-ray emission from plasma streaming out of the hohlraum. These observations agree with hydrodynamic simulations and with analytical modeling that includes hydrodynamic and coronal radiative losses. The modeling predicts radiation temperature limits ...