Nuclear diagnostics for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) plasmas

JA Frenje - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of nuclear diagnostics for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) is broadly reviewed
from its beginning in the seventies to present day. During this time, the sophistication of the …

Invited article: Relation between electric and magnetic field structures and their proton-beam images

NL Kugland, DD Ryutov, C Plechaty, JS Ross… - Review of scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Proton imaging is commonly used to reveal the electric and magnetic fields that are found in
high energy density plasmas. Presented here is an analysis of this technique that is directed …

Precision mapping of laser-driven magnetic fields and their evolution in high-energy-density plasmas

L Gao, PM Nilson, IV Igumenshchev, MG Haines… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
The magnetic fields generated at the surface of a laser-irradiated planar solid target are
mapped using ultrafast proton radiography. Thick (50 μ m) plastic foils are irradiated with 4 …

First measurements of Rayleigh-Taylor-induced magnetic fields in laser-produced plasmas

MJE Manuel, CK Li, FH Séguin, J Frenje, DT Casey… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
The first experimental demonstration of Rayleigh-Taylor-induced magnetic fields due to the
Biermann battery effect has been made. Experiments with laser-irradiated plastic foils were …

Single-shot electron radiography using a laser–plasma accelerator

G Bruhaug, MS Freeman, HG Rinderknecht… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Contact and projection electron radiography of static targets was demonstrated using a laser–
plasma accelerator driven by a kilojoule, picosecond-class laser as a source of relativistic …

Using high-intensity laser-generated energetic protons to radiograph directly driven implosions

AB Zylstra, CK Li, HG Rinderknecht… - Review of scientific …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
, provides a new diagnostic capability to study inertial-confinement-fusion (ICF) and high-
energy-density (HED) plasmas. Specifically, petawatt OMEGA EP pulses have been used to …

Topology of megagauss magnetic fields and of heat-carrying electrons produced in a high-power laser-solid interaction

L Lancia, B Albertazzi, C Boniface, A Grisollet… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
The intricate spatial and energy distribution of magnetic fields, self-generated during high
power laser irradiation (at I λ 2∼ 1 0 13-1 0 14 W. cm− 2. μ m 2) of a solid target, and of the …

Self-generated magnetic fields in direct-drive implosion experiments

IV Igumenshchev, AB Zylstra, CK Li, PM Nilson… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Electric and self-generated magnetic fields in direct-drive implosion experiments on the
OMEGA Laser Facility were investigated employing radiography with∼ 10-to 60-MeV …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrodynamic description of an unmagnetized plasma with multiple ion species. I. General formulation

AN Simakov, K Molvig - Physics of Plasmas, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
A generalization of the Braginskii ion fluid description [SI Braginskii, Sov. Phys.-JETP 6, 358
(1958)] to the case of an unmagnetized collisional plasma with multiple ion species is …

Particle-in-cell simulations of laser–plasma interactions at solid densities and relativistic intensities: the role of atomic processes

D Wu, XT He, W Yu, S Fritzsche - High Power Laser Science and …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Direct numerical simulation of intense laser–solid interactions is still of great challenges,
because of the many coupled atomic and plasma processes, such as ionization dynamics …