Fabrication of high-concentration Cu-doped deuterated targets for fast ignition experiments

T Ikeda, Y Kaneyasu, H Hosokawa, K Shigemori… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In high-energy-density physics, including inertial fusion energy using high-power lasers,
doping tracer atoms and deuteration of target materials play an important role in diagnosis …

Verification of fast heating of core plasmas produced by counter-illumination of implosion lasers

E Miura, Y Mori, K Ishii, S Sakata, Y Abe… - High Energy Density …, 2020 - Elsevier
We conducted fast heating of a core plasma produced by counter-illumination of two beam
bundles of implosion lasers for two incident directions of the heating laser. For the axial …

A nuclear-reaction-based method for probing the nonthermal ion energy spectrum in high energy density laboratory plasmas

K Li, ZY Liu, AD Liu, SP Zhu, XT He, B Qiao - Nuclear Fusion, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The nuclear reactions in a plasma system with particle distributions deviated from the
Maxwellian are proved to have some unique characteristics, in particular, in their reaction …

Demonstration of a spherical plasma mirror for the counter-propagating kilojoule-class petawatt LFEX laser system

S Kojima, Y Abe, E Miura, T Ozaki, K Yamanoi… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A counter-propagating laser-beam platform using a spherical plasma mirror was developed
for the kilojoule-class petawatt LFEX laser. The temporal and spatial overlaps of the …

Direct fast heating efficiency of a counter-imploded core plasma employing a laser for fast ignition experiments (LFEX)

Y Kitagawa, Y Mori, K Ishii, R Hanayama… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Fast heating efficiency when a pre-imploded core is directly heated with an ultraintense
laser (heating laser) was investigated.'Direct heating'means that a heating laser hits a pre …

A nuclear-based diagnostic scheme for nonthermal ion spectrum in high energy density plasmas experiments

K Li, ZY Liu, AD Liu, B Qiao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.10175, 2022 - arxiv.org
The nuclear reactions in a plasma system with energy distribution deviated from Maxwellian
are proved to have some unique characteristics including those in their product energy …

Fast Ion Speed Diffusion Effect on Distributions of Fusion Neutrons

P Goncharov - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Numerical modelling of yields and distributions of nuclear fusion
products in magnetically confined plasma. Abstract Velocity distributions of fuel nuclei enter …

Hot electron and ion spectra in axial and transverse laser irradiation in the GXII-LFEX direct fast ignition experiment

T Ozaki, Y Abe, Y Arikawa, S Okihara… - Plasma and Fusion …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
A fast ignition [1–3] is performed by auxiliary heating to the imploded core. Several fast
ignition schemes have been studied for decades, such as the electron-driven fast ignition by …

Estimation of a Plasma Mirror Reflectivity of LFEX Laser and Relevant Results Using Electron Energy Spectrometers

T Ozaki, E Miura, S Kojima, Y Arikawa… - Plasma and Fusion …, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Fast ignition [1–3] is one of the inertial fusions, performed by additional heating of an
imploded core. The realization of conventional inertial fusion requires compression of 1000 …

Hot electron and ion spectra on blow-off plasma free target in GXII-LFEX direct fast ignition experiment

T Ozaki, Y Abe, Y Arikawa, Y Sentoku… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Polystyrene deuteride shell targets with two holes were imploded by the Gekko XII laser and
additionally heated by the LFEX laser in a direct fast ignition experiment. In general, when …