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Characterization of time-dependent x-ray drive at the center of a cylindrical hohlraum
Xufei Xie1, Changshu Wu2, Lifei Hou1
1Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, Laser Fusion Research Center, Mianyang 621900, China.
Abstract:
Detailed investigation of the x-ray drive on the capsule at the center of the hohlraum is crucial to solve the "drive deficit" problem in inertial confinement fusion. A pioneering work for probing the drive flux at the hohlraum center by simultaneously measuring the re-emitted flux and shock velocity was reported [X. Xie et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 075001 (2022)0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.128.075001]. However, in the last experiment only two discrete shock velocity values can be obtained, as the streaked optical pyrometer was employed. In this work, we present characterization of the time-dependent x-ray drive on the capsule by simultaneously measuring the time-dependent localized re-emitted flux and the time-dependent shock velocity. The time-dependent localized re-emitted flux was measured by the space-resolving flux detector, while the time-dependent shock velocity was obtained with the velocity interferometer system for any reflector. Two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations revealed that the time history of the re-emitted flux as well as the shock velocity can be well reproduced. This technique presented a way for the determination of the x-ray drive at the center of the cylindrical hohlraum as well as other novel hohlraums.
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