The MARBLE project is a novel inertial confinement fusion platform for studying the
development of atomic mixing and temperature equilibration in inertial confinement fusion
implosions and their impact on thermonuclear burn. Experiments involve the laser-driven
implosion of capsules filled with deuterated engineered foams whose pores are filled with a
gaseous mixture of hydrogen and tritium. By varying the size of the foam pores, we can study
the timescale of the development of atomic mix relative to the development of thermal …