Hohlraum-driven high-convergence implosion experiments with multiple beam cones on the Omega laser facility

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Amendt, P [1 ]
Turner, RE [1 ]
Landen, OL [1 ]
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[1] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.165001
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O4 [物理学];
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High-convergence implosion experiments have been performed on the Omega laser facility [T.R. Boehly et al., Opt. Commun. 133, 495 (1997)] using cylindrical gold hohlraums with 40 drive beams arranged into multiple cones. These experiments make use of improved hohlraum radiation symmetry conditions [T.J. Murphy et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 108 (1998)] to demonstrate near predicted primary (2.45 MeV) neutron production from single-shell implosions with measured deuterium fuel convergence ratios exceeding 20 at an ignition-relevant hohlraum case-to-capsule ratio approximate to3.
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