Branching of high-current relativistic electron beam in porous materials

K Jiang, TW Huang, R Li, MY Yu, HB Zhuo, SZ Wu… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Propagation of high-current relativistic electron beam (REB) in plasma is relevant to many
high-energy astrophysical phenomena as well as applications based on high-intensity …

Future for inertial-fusion energy in Europe: a roadmap

D Batani, A Colaïtis, F Consoli, CN Danson… - High Power Laser …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The recent achievement of fusion ignition with laser-driven technologies at the National
Ignition Facility sets a historic accomplishment in fusion energy research. This …

Measuring the principal Hugoniot of inertial-confinement-fusion-relevant TMPTA plastic foams

RW Paddock, MW von der Leyen, R Aboushelbaya… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Wetted-foam layers are of significant interest for inertial-confinement-fusion capsules, due to
the control they provide over the convergence ratio of the implosion and the opportunity this …

Experimental investigation of the interplay between optical and plasma smoothing induced on a laser megajoule beamline

S Depierreux, D Pesme, R Wrobel, DT Michel… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Past experiments [S. Depierreux, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 195005 (2009) 10.1103/PhysRevLett.
102.195005] have exhibited the plasma-induced incoherence (PII) process and the reduced …

Stability analysis of linear ion waves leading to nonlinear shock and soliton structures in a dense quantum plasma with strongly coupled ions and degenerate …

U Rehman, S Hassan, I Hussain, SA Khan… - Chinese Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In a quantum plasma with strongly coupled ions and Fermi degenerate electron fluids,
features of low frequency wave dispersion and nonlinear electrostatic structure formation are …

Characteristics of branched flows of high-current relativistic electron beams in porous materials

K Jiang, TW Huang, R Li, CT Zhou - Physics of Plasmas, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Branched flow is a universal phenomenon in which treebranch-like filaments form through
traveling waves or particle flows in irregular mediums. Branched flow of high-current …

Nonstationary laser-supported ionization wave in layer of porous substance with subcritical density

SY Gus'kov, RA Yakhin - Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT A time-dependent analytical solution is found for the velocity of a plane
ionization wave generated under nanosecond laser pulse action on the surface of a flat …

[HTML][HTML] Direct-drive ICF target with compound ablator containing a low-density component

NN Demchenko, SY Gus' kov, PA Kuchugov… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The results of theoretical investigation of implosion and combustion of a direct-drive inertial
confinement fusion (ICF) target as a shell with compound outer layer (ablator) intended to …

Numerical Study of Carbon Nanofoam Targets for Laser-Driven Inertial Fusion Experiments

A Maffini, M Cipriani, D Orecchia, V Ciardiello… - Laser and Particle …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Porous materials have peculiar characteristics that are relevant for inertial confinement
fusion (ICF). Among them, chemically produced foams are proved to be able to smooth the …

Equation of state of a partially homogenized plasma of low-dense porous matter

SY Gus' kov, RA Yakhin - Physics of Plasmas, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The equation of state (EOS) of a low-density porous substance plasma is proposed in the
form of continuous media EOS containing, as a pressure control parameter, the degree of …