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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 21(108), 2012

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.215005

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Assembly of High-Areal-Density Deuterium-Tritium Fuel from Indirectly Driven Cryogenic Implosions

Journal article published in 2012 by A. J. Mackinnon, J. L. Kline, S. N. Dixit, S. H. Glenzer, M. J. Edwards, D. A. Callahan, N. B. Meezan, S. W. Haan, J. D. Kilkenny, T. Doumlppner, T. Döppner, D. R. Farley, J. D. Moody, J. E. Ralph, B. J. MacGowan and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The National Ignition Facility has been used to compress deuterium-tritium to an average areal density of ~1.0plusmn0.1 g cm -2, which is 67% of the ignition requirement. These conditions were obtained using 192 laser beams with total energy of 1-1.6 MJ and peak power up to 420 TW to create a hohlraum drive with a shaped power profile, peaking at a soft x-ray radiation temperature of 275-300 eV. This pulse delivered a series of shocks that compressed a capsule containing cryogenic deuterium-tritium to a radius of 25-35 mum. Neutron images of the implosion were used to estimate a fuel density of 500-800 g cm -3.