High-energy-density physics

Science:

2008

J.R. Rygg et al., "Proton Radiography of Inertial Fusion Implosions" Science 319, 1223 (2008).

Physical Review Letters:

2008

V.A. Smalyuk et al, "Rayleigh-Taylor Growth Stabilization in Direct-Drive Plastic Targets at Laser Intensities of ~1 X 10 ¹⁵ W/cm ²," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 025002 (2008).

C.K. Li et al, "Monoenergetic-Proton-Radiography Measurements of Implosion Dynamics in Direct-Drive Inertial-Confinement Fusion" Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 225001 (2008).

T.C. Sangster et al, "High-Areal-Density Fuel Assembly in Direct-Drive Cryogenic Implosions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185006 (2008).

V.A. Smalyuk et al, "Role of Hot-Electron Preheating in the Compression of Direct-Drive Imploding Targets with Cryogenic D2 Ablators," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185005 (2008).

2007

C. D.Zhou et al., "High-rhoR Implosions for Fast-Ignition Fuel Assembly" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 025004 (2007).

C.K. Li et al., "Observation of Megagauss-Field Topology Changes due to Magnetic Reconnection in Laser-Produced Plasmas" Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 055001 (2007).

C.K. Li et al., "Observation of the Decay Dynamics and Instabilities of Megagauss Field Structures in Laser-Produced Plasmas" Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 015001 (2007).

J.R. Rygg et al., "Time-Dependent Nuclear Measurements of Mix in Inertial Confinement Fusion" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 215002 (2007).

2006

C. K. Li et al., "Measuring E and B fields in Laser-Produced Plasmas with Monoenergetic Proton Radiography" Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 135003 (2006).

2004

C. K. Li et al., "Effects of Nonuniform Illumination on Implosion Asymmetry in Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion" Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (20), 205001(2004).

S. P. Regan et al., "Dependence of Shell Mix on Feedthrough in Direct Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion",  Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (18), 185002 (2004).

2003

2002

C. K. Li et al., "Effects of Fuel-Shell Mix upon Direct-Drive, Spherical Implosions on OMEGA" Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (16), 165002 (2002).

S. P. Regan et al., "Shell Mix in the Compressed Core of Spherical Implosions",  Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (8), (2002).

1996

R. D. Petrasso et al., "Measuring Implosion Symmetry and Core Conditions in the National Ignition Facility", Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 (13), 2718 (1996).

1993

C. K. Li and R. D. Petrasso, "Charged particle stopping powers in inertial confinement fusion plasmas", Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 (20), 3059 (1993).

C. K. Li and R. D. Petrasso, "Fokker-Planck equation for moderately coupled plasmas", Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 (20), 3063 (1993).

Physics of Plasmas

2008

J.A. Frenje et al, "Diagnosing ablator pR and pR modulations in capsules implosions using charged-particle spectrometry at the National Ignition Facility," Physics of Plasmas 15, 1 (2008). (Proof Copy).

W. Theobald et al, "Initial experiments on the shock-ignition inertial confinement fusion concept," Phys. Plasmas 15, (2008) 056306.

V.N. Goncharov et al, "Performance of direct-drive cryogenic targets on OMEGA," Phys. Plasmas 15, (2008) 056310.

R.L. McCrory et al, "Progress in direct-drive intertial confinement fusion," Phys. Plasmas 15, (2008) 055503.

R.Rygg et al, "Observations of the collapse of assymetrically driven convergent shocks," Phys. Plasmas 15, 034505 (2008).

2007

C. Stoeckl et al., "Hydrodynamics studies of direct-drive cone-in-shell, fast-ignitor targets on OMEGA", Phys. Plasmas 14, 112702 (2007).

T.C. Sangster et al., "Cryogenic DT and D2 targets for inertial confinement fusion", Phys. Plasmas 14 , 058101 (2007)

J.R. Rygg et al., "Nuclear measurements of fuel-shell mix in inertial confinement fusion implosions at OMEGA", Phys. Plasmas 14 , 056306 (2007).

V. A. Smalyuk et al., "Experimental studies of direct-drive, low-intensity, low-adiabat spherical implosions on OMEGA", Phys. Plasmas 14 , 022702 (2007)

2006

F. H. Seguin et al., "Measured dependence of nuclear burn region size on implosion parameters in inertial confinement fusion experiments", Phys. Plasmas 13 , 082704 (2006).

C. K. Li et al., "Energy deposition of MeV electrons in compressed targets of fast-ignition inertial confinement fusion", Phys. Plasmas 13 , 056314 (2006).

J. R. Rygg et al., "Tests of the hydrodynamic equivalence of direct-drive implosions with different D2 and 3He mixtures", Phys. Plasmas 13 , 052702 (2006).

2005

V. A. Smalyuk et al., "Hot-core characterization of direct-drive spherical cryogenic D2 target implosion", Phys. Plasmas 12 , 052706 (2005).

R.B Stephens et al., "Implosion hydrodynamics of fast ignition targets", Phys. Plasmas 12 , 056312 (2005).

F. J. Marshall et al., "Direct-drive, cryogenic target implosions on OMEGA", Phys. Plasmas 12 , 056302 (2005).

J. P. Knauer et al., "Improved target stability using picket pulses to increase and shape the ablator adiabat", Phys. Plasmas 12 , 056306 (2005).

S. Kurebayashi et al., "Using nuclear data and Monte Carlo techniques to study areal density and mix in D2 implosions", Phys. Plasmas 12 , 032703 (2005).

2004

J. A. Frenje et al., "Measuring shock-bang timing and rhoR evolution of D3He implosions at OMEGA", Phys. Plasmas 11 (5), 2798 (2004).

D. C. Wilson et al., "Multifluid interpenetration mixing in directly driven inertial confinement fusion capsule implosions", Phys. Plasmas 11 (5), 2723 (2004).

P. W. McKenty et al., "Direct-drive cryogenic target implosion performance on OMEGA", Phys. Plasmas 11 (5), 2790 (2004).

2003

T. C. Sangster et al., "Direct-drive cryogenic target implosion performance on OMEGA", Phys. Plasmas 10 (5), 1937 (2003).

C. K. Li et al., "Capsule-areal-density asymmetries inferred from 14.7-MeV deuterium–helium protons in direct-drive OMEGA implosions", Phys. Plasmas 10 (5), 1919 (2003)

V. A. Smalyuk et al., "Hydrodynamic growth of shell modulations in the deceleration phase of spherical direct-drive implosions", Phys. Plasmas 10 (5), 1861 (2003).

2002

J. A. Frenje et al., "Measurements of fuel and shell areal densities of OMEGA capsule implosions using elastically scattered protons", Phys. Plasmas 9 (11), 4719 (2002)

2001

2000

1998

S. Cremer et al., "Tertiary proton diagnostics in future inertial confinement fusion experiments", Phys. Plasmas 5 (11), 4009 (1998).

1995

C. K. Li and R. D. Petrasso, "Effects of scattering upon energetic ion energy loss in plasmas", Phys. Plasmas 2 (6),  2460 (1995).

Nature

1994

R. D. Petrasso, "Will the alphas abscond?", Nature 369, 105 (1994).

R. D. Petrasso, Raileigh's challenge endures", Nature 367, 217 (1994).

1992

R. D. Petrasso, "Solar conundrums", Nature 355, 29 (1992).

1991

R. D. Petrasso, "The moment of truth nears", Nature 350, 661 (1991).

1990

R. D. Petrasso, "Plasmas everywhere", Nature 343, 21 (1990).

1989

R. D. Petrasso et al., "Measurement of gamma rays from cold fusion", Nature 339, 667 (1989).

R. D. Petrasso et al., "Problems with the gamma-ray spectrum in the Fleishmann etal. experiments", Nature 339, 183 (1989).

Nuclear Fusion

2005

R.L McCrory et al., "Direct-drive inertial confinement fusion research at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics: charting the path to thermonuclear ignition", Nucl. Fusion 45 (2005) S283.

2001

R. L. McCrory et al., "OMEGA ICF experiments and preparation for direct drive ignition on NIF", Nucl. Fusion 41 (11), 1414 (2001).

Physical Review

2006

C. K. Li et al., "Stopping, straggling, and blooming of directed energetic electrons in hydrogenic and arbitrary-Z plasmas", Phys. Rev. E 73, 016402 (2006).

2004

C. K. Li et al., "Stopping of directed energetic electrons in high-temperature hydrogenic plasmas", Phys. Rev. E 70, 067401 (2004).

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

2006

R. Betti et al., "Progress in hydrodynamics theory and experiments for direct-drive and fast ignition inertial confinement fusion", Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 48 (2006) B153.

2005

C. Stoeckl et al., "Direct-drive fuel-assembly experiments with gas-filled, cone-in-shell, fast-ignitor targets on the OMEGA Laser", Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 47 (2005) B859.

2001

D. D. Meyerhofer et al., "Inferences of mix in direct-drive spherical implosions with high uniformity", Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 43 (2001) A277.

Review of Scientific Instruments

2008

J.A. Frenje et al, "First measurements of the absolute neutron spectrum using the Magnetic Recoil Spectrometer (MRS) at OMEGA (invited)." Accepted for Publication in Rev. Sci. Instrum. (2008).

S.C. McDuffee et al., "An accelerator based fusion-product source for development of inertial confinement fusion nuclear diagnostics," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79 (2008) 043302.

2006

C.K. Li et al., “Monoenergetic proton backlighter for measuring E and B fields and radiographing implosions and high-energy density plasmas (invited)”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77 (2006) 10E725.

V. Yu. Glebov et al., “Development of nuclear diagnostics for the National Ignition Facility (invited)”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77 (2006) 10E715.

D.C. Wilson et al., “Diagnosing ablator burn through in ignition capsules using D2+3He gas filled surrogates”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77 (2006) 10E711.

V. Tang et al., “Compact multichannel neutral particle analyzer for measurement of energetic charge-exchanged neutrals in Alcator C-Mod”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77 (2006) 083501.

J. L. DeCiantis et al., “Proton core imaging of the nuclear burn in inertial confinement fusion implosions”, Rev. Sci. Instrum 77 (2006) 043503.

2004

F. H. Seguin et al., “D3He-proton emission imaging for inertial-confinement-fusion experiments (invited)”, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75 (2004) 3520.

2003

F. H. Seguin et al., “Spectrometry of charged particles from inertial-confinement-fusion plasmas”, Rev. Sci. Instrum 74 (2003) 975.

2002

J. A. Frenje et al., "Absolute measurements of neutron yields in DD and DT implosions at the OMEGA laser facility using CR-39 track detectors", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 73 (2002) 2597.

2001

D. G. Hicks et al., "Optimal foil shape for neutron time-of-flight measurements using elastic recoils", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 72 (2001) 859.

J. A. Frenje et al., "A neutron spectrometer for precise measurements of DT neutrons from 10 to 18 MeV at OMEGA and the National Ignition Facility", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 72 (2001) 854.

T. J. Murphy et al., "Nuclear diagnostics for the National Ignition Facility (invited)", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 72 (2001) 773.

1997

Journal of Physics

2008