First Observations of Nonhydrodynamic Mix at the Fuel-Shell Interface in Shock-Driven Inertial Confinement Implosions
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Amendt, P.
Delettrez, J. A.
Bellei, C.
Betti, R.
Glebov, V. Yu.
Meyerhofer, D. D.
Sangster, T. C.
Stoeckl, C.
Landen, O. L.
Smalyuk, V. A.
Date Issued
April 2014
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Rinderknecht, H. G., H. Sio, C. K. Li, A. B. Zylstra, M. J. Rosenberg, P. Amendt, J. Delettrez, et al. “First Observations of Nonhydrodynamic Mix at the Fuel-Shell Interface in Shock-Driven Inertial Confinement Implosions.” Physical Review Letters 112, no. 13 (April 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society
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Abstract
A strong nonhydrodynamic mechanism generating atomic fuel-shell mix has been observed in strongly shocked inertial confinement fusion implosions of thin deuterated-plastic shells filled with [superscript 3]He gas. These implosions were found to produce D[superscript 3]He-proton shock yields comparable to implosions of identical shells filled with a hydroequivalent 50∶50 D[superscript 3]He gas mixture. Standard hydrodynamic mixing cannot explain this observation, as hydrodynamic modeling including mix predicts a yield an order of magnitude lower than was observed. Instead, these results can be attributed to ion diffusive mix at the fuel-shell interface.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.135001
