Study of Fuel-Pusher Mixing in Laser-Driven Implosions, Using Secondary Nuclear Fusion Reactions
- 7 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (23) , 2635-2638
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.2635
Abstract
Ablative implosions of glass microballoon targets driven by twelve 0.53-μm laser beams have been studied by use of secondary DT and D fusion reactions in an initially pure deuterium fuel. The tritons and nuclei are products of primary DD fusion reactions. Comparisons with results of a hydrodynamic simulation indicate that collisional energy loss for these primary fusion products is strongly enhanced by fuel-pusher mixing taking place during the implosion.
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