Self-Similar Structure and Experimental Signatures of Suprathermal Ion Distribution in Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions

Grigory Kagan, D. Svyatskiy, H. G. Rinderknecht, M. J. Rosenberg, A. B. Zylstra, C.-K. Huang, and C. J. McDevitt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 105002 – Published 3 September 2015

Abstract

The distribution function of suprathermal ions is found to be self-similar under conditions relevant to inertial confinement fusion hot spots. By utilizing this feature, interference between the hydrodynamic instabilities and kinetic effects is for the first time assessed quantitatively to find that the instabilities substantially aggravate the fusion reactivity reduction. The ion tail depletion is also shown to lower the experimentally inferred ion temperature, a novel kinetic effect that may explain the discrepancy between the exploding pusher experiments and rad-hydro simulations and contribute to the observation that temperature inferred from DD reaction products is lower than from DT at the National Ignition Facility.

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  • Received 18 April 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.105002

© 2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Grigory Kagan1,*, D. Svyatskiy1, H. G. Rinderknecht2, M. J. Rosenberg2,3, A. B. Zylstra2, C.-K. Huang1, and C. J. McDevitt1

  • 1Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
  • 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 3Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA

  • *kagan@lanl.gov

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Vol. 115, Iss. 10 — 4 September 2015

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