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A case study of using X-ray Thomson Scattering to diagnose the in-flight plasma conditions of DT cryogenic implosions

Abstract:
The design of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) ignition targets requires radiation-hydrodynamics simulations with accurate models of the fundamental material properties (i.e., equation of state, opacity, and conductivity). Validation of these models are required via experimentation. A feasibility study of using spatially-integrated, spectrally-resolved, X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) measurements to diagnose the temperature, density, and ionization of the compressed DT shell of a cryogenic DT implosion at two-thirds convergence was conducted. Synthetic scattering spectra were generated using 1-D implosion simulations from the LILAC code that were post processed with the X-ray Scattering (XRS) model which is incorporated within SPECT3D. Analysis of two extreme adiabat capsule conditions showed that the plasma conditions for both compressed DT shells could be resolved.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1063/5.0072790

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
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0000-0003-1016-0975


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AIP Publishing
Journal:
Physics of Plasmas More from this journal
Volume:
29
Article number:
072703
Publication date:
2022-07-05
Acceptance date:
2022-06-13
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EISSN:
1089-7674
ISSN:
1070-664X


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English
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Pubs id:
1264041
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pubs:1264041
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2022-06-16

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