Measurement of feedthrough and instability growth in radiation-driven cylindrical implosions

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Hsing, WW
Hoffman, NM
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[1] Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.3876
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We have performed the first radiation-driven implosions in a convergent geometry where feedthrough of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability and Bell-Plesset growth are observed. A perturbation in a dodecagon shape was machined on the outer surface of a cylindrical polystyrene shell. The shell was imploded by radiation ablation in a hohlraum at the Nova laser. Growth of the perturbation was observed at the inner surface of the shell via x-ray backlighter imaging. This method shows promise for the study of instability growth and feedthrough in converging flows.
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