Lawson criterion for ignition exceeded in an inertial fusion experiment

H Abu-Shawareb, R Acree, P Adams, J Adams… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
For more than half a century, researchers around the world have been engaged in attempts
to achieve fusion ignition as a proof of principle of various fusion concepts. Following the …

A measurement of the equation of state of carbon envelopes of white dwarfs

AL Kritcher, DC Swift, T Döppner, B Bachmann… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
White dwarfs represent the final state of evolution for most stars,–. Certain classes of white
dwarfs pulsate,, leading to observable brightness variations, and analysis of these variations …

First-principles equation of state database for warm dense matter computation

B Militzer, F González-Cataldo, S Zhang, KP Driver… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We put together a first-principles equation of state (FPEOS) database for matter at extreme
conditions by combining results from path integral Monte Carlo and density functional …

Design of the first fusion experiment to achieve target energy gain

AL Kritcher, AB Zylstra, CR Weber, OA Hurricane… - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
In this work we present the design of the first controlled fusion laboratory experiment to
reach target gain G> 1 N221204 (5 December 2022)[Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065102 (2024) …

Design of an inertial fusion experiment exceeding the Lawson criterion for ignition

AL Kritcher, AB Zylstra, DA Callahan, OA Hurricane… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We present the design of the first igniting fusion plasma in the laboratory by Lawson's
criterion that produced 1.37 MJ of fusion energy, Hybrid-E experiment N210808 (August 8 …

Review of the first charged-particle transport coefficient comparison workshop

PE Grabowski, SB Hansen, MS Murillo… - High Energy Density …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present the results of the first Charged-Particle Transport Coefficient Code Comparison
Workshop, which was held in Albuquerque, NM October 4–6, 2016. In this first workshop …

Recent progress in matter in extreme states created by laser

K Batani, D Batani, XT He, K Shigemori - Matter and Radiation at …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Strong interest in the modeling of planetary interiors, dwarf stars, and the physical conditions
necessary to achieve inertial confinement fusion (ICF) have driven attention to the properties …

Review of the 1st EUV Light Sources Code Comparison Workshop

J Sheil, O Versolato, V Bakshi, H Scott - Atoms, 2023 - mdpi.com
We review the results of the 1 st Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Light Sources Code Comparison
Workshop. The goal of this workshop was to provide a platform for specialists in EUV light …

Requirements for very high temperature Kohn–Sham DFT simulations and how to bypass them

A Blanchet, M Torrent, J Clerouin - Physics of Plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In high-temperature density functional theory simulations (from tens of eV to keV), the total
number of Kohn–Sham orbitals is a critical quantity to get accurate results. To establish the …

The colliding planar shocks platform to study warm dense matter at the National Ignition Facility

MJ MacDonald, CA Di Stefano, T Doeppner… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We have developed an experimental platform at the National Ignition Facility that employs
colliding planar shocks to produce warm dense matter with uniform conditions and enable …