ISSN:
1089-7674
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
This article describes a suite of 250, 280, and 350 eV copper-doped Be [Be(Cu)] capsule designs for the National Ignition Facility [Paisner et al., Laser Focus World 30, 75 (1994)] and compare these to previous Be(Cu) and bromine-doped CH plastic [CH(Br)] capsule designs for 300 and 330 eV drives. These capsule designs are constrained to have the same deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel mass as the 300 and 330 eV designs so that differences in yield are due to differences in capsule compression before ignition. The one-dimensional (1-D) calculations show that the fuel ρr reaches a maximum value when about 20–30 μm of ablator material is left behind, and this amount of ablator material provides the best trade-off between maximizing the fuel ρr, the implosion velocity, and the calculated clean yield. The results of this paper add optimized 1-D capsule designs that operate at drive temperatures of 250, 280, and 350 eV and they complement the established 300 eV CH(Br) ablator and the 330 eV Be(Cu) ablator designs.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.873710
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