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Investigation of the effect of large-scale shell asymmetry on Iskra-5 target operation

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Experiments designed to investigate the effect of a controlled large-scale asymmetry of a shell containing deuterium-tritium fuel on the shell compression and neutron production under indirect (x-ray) action are performed on the Iskra-5 laser fusion device. The uniformity of the x radiation near the target is not worse than 3%, and the shell asymmetry is varied from 30 to 100%. The observed decrease of the experimental neutron yield as compared with experiments using symmetric targets is in satisfactory agreement with two-dimensional calculations.

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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 67, No. 3, 161–165 (10 February 1998)

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Bel’kov, S.A., Bessarab, A.V., Vinokurov, O.A. et al. Investigation of the effect of large-scale shell asymmetry on Iskra-5 target operation. Jetp Lett. 67, 171–175 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567646

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