[HTML][HTML] Advanced data analysis in inertial confinement fusion and high energy density physics

PF Knapp, WE Lewis - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Bayesian analysis enables flexible and rigorous definition of statistical model assumptions
with well-characterized propagation of uncertainties and resulting inferences for single-shot …

Neutron time of flight (nToF) detectors for inertial fusion experiments

AS Moore, DJ Schlossberg, BD Appelbe… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Neutrons generated in Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) experiments provide valuable
information to interpret the conditions reached in the plasma. The neutron time-of-flight …

Kinetic physics in ICF: present understanding and future directions

HG Rinderknecht, PA Amendt, SC Wilks… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Kinetic physics has the potential to impact the performance of indirect-drive inertial
confinement fusion (ICF) experiments. Systematic anomalies in the National Ignition Facility …

Research progress of kinetic effects in laser inertial confinement fusion

S Lianqiang, W Fengjuan, Y Zongqiang, W Weiwu… - 强激光与粒子束, 2020 - hplpb.com.cn
In recent years, the study of kinetic effects is a hot issue in the field of laser inertial
confinement fusion, which helps to understand the deviation between experimental results …

Refractive index seen by a probe beam interacting with a laser-plasma system

D Turnbull, C Goyon, GE Kemp, BB Pollock… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We report the first complete set of measurements of a laser-plasma optical system's
refractive index, as seen by a second probe laser beam, as a function of the relative …

Resolving hot spot microstructure using x-ray penumbral imaging

B Bachmann, T Hilsabeck, J Field, N Masters… - Review of Scientific …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We have developed and fielded x-ray penumbral imaging on the National Ignition Facility in
order to enable sub-10 μm resolution imaging of stagnated plasma cores (hot spots) of …

[HTML][HTML] Ion species stratification within strong shocks in two-ion plasmas

BD Keenan, AN Simakov, WT Taitano, L Chacón - Physics of Plasmas, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Strong collisional shocks in multi-ion plasmas are featured in many environments, with
Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) experiments being one prominent example. Recent work …

Constraints on ion velocity distributions from fusion product spectroscopy

AJ Crilly, BD Appelbe, OM Mannion, W Taitano… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent inertial confinement fusion experiments have shown primary fusion spectral
moments which are incompatible with a Maxwellian velocity distribution description. These …

Deciphering the kinetic structure of multi-ion plasma shocks

BD Keenan, AN Simakov, L Chacón, WT Taitano - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Strong collisional shocks in multi-ion plasmas are featured in many high-energy-density
environments, including inertial confinement fusion implosions. However, their basic …

[HTML][HTML] Approximate models for the ion-kinetic regime in inertial-confinement-fusion capsule implosions

NM Hoffman, GB Zimmerman, K Molvig… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
“Reduced”(ie, simplified or approximate) ion-kinetic (RIK) models in radiation-hydrodynamic
simulations permit a useful description of inertial-confinement-fusion (ICF) implosions where …