National Diagnostic Working Group (NDWG) for inertial confinement fusion (ICF)/high-energy density (HED) science: The whole exceeds the sum of its parts
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Author(s)
Kilkenny, K.D.
Hsing, W.W.
Batha, S.
Rochau, G.A.
Sangster, T.C.
Bell, P.M.
Bradley, D.K.
Chen, H.
Frenje, Johan A.
Gatu Johnson, Maria
Date Issued
January 2023
Journal
Review of Scientific Instruments
Publisher
AIP
Abstract
The National Diagnostic Working Group (NDWG) has led the effort to fully exploit the major inertial confinement fusion/high-energy density facilities in the US with the best available diagnostics. These diagnostics provide key data used to falsify early theories for ignition and suggest new theories, recently leading to an experiment that exceeds the Lawson condition required for ignition. The factors contributing to the success of the NDWG, collaboration and scope evolution, and the methods of accomplishment of the NDWG are discussed in this Review. Examples of collaborations in neutron and gamma spectroscopy, x-ray and neutron imaging, x-ray spectroscopy, and deep-ultraviolet Thomson scattering are given. An abbreviated history of the multi-decade collaborations and the present semiformal management framework is given together with the latest National Diagnostic Plan.
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Submitted for publication in Review of Scientific Instruments
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0128650
