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Fast ignition integrated interconnecting code project for cone-guided targets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2006

H. SAKAGAMI ,
T. JOHZAKI ,
H. NAGATOMO  and
K. MIMA
H. SAKAGAMI
Affiliation:
Theory and Computer Simulation Center, National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Japan
T. JOHZAKI
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
H. NAGATOMO
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
K. MIMA
Affiliation:
Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
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Abstract

It was reported that the fuel core was heated up to ∼0.8 keV in the fast ignition experiments with cone-guided targets, but they could not theoretically explain heating mechanisms and achievement of such high temperature. Thus simulations should play an important role in estimating the scheme performance, and we must simulate each phenomenon with individual codes and integrate them under the fast ignition integrated interconnecting code project. In the previous integrated simulations, fast electrons generated by the laser-plasma interaction were too hot to efficiently heat the core and we got only 0.096 keV rise of temperature. Including the density gap at the contact surface between the cone tip and the imploded plasma, the period of core heating became longer and the core was heated by 0.162 keV, ∼ 69% higher increment compared with ignoring the density gap effect.

Keywords

Code integrationFast ignitionInterconnectionSimulation
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 191 - 198
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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