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M Vandenboomgaerde1, J Bastian, A Casner
1Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique CEA/DAM-Ile de France, Boîte Postale 12, 91680 Bruyères-Le-Châtel, France.
Abstract:
A novel rugby-ball shaped hohlraum is designed in the context of the indirect-drive scheme of inertial-confinement fusion (ICF). Experiments were performed on the OMEGA laser and are the first use of rugby hohlraums for ICF studies. Analysis of experimental data shows that the hohlraum energetics is well understood. We show that the rugby-ball shape exhibits advantages over cylinder, in terms of temperature and of symmetry control of the capsule implosion. Simulations indicate that rugby hohlraum driven targets may be candidates for ignition in a context of early Laser MegaJoule experiments with reduced laser energy.
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