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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 23(88)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.88.235001

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Indirect-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Using Highly Supersonic, Radiatively Cooled, Plasma Slugs

Journal article published in 2002 by J. P. Chittenden ORCID, M. Dunne ORCID, M. Zepf, S. V. Lebedev, A. Ciardi ORCID, S. N. Bland ORCID
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Abstract

We present a new approach to indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion which makes use of highly supersonic, radiatively cooled, slugs of plasma to energize a hohlraum. 2D resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of slug formation in shaped liner Z-pinch implosions are presented along with 2D-radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the slug impacting a converter foil and 3D-view-factor simulations of a double-ended hohlraum. Results for the Z facility at Sandia National Laboratory indicate that two synchronous slugs of 250 kJ kinetic energy could be produced, resulting in a capsule surface temperature of approximately 225 eV.