Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) has existed as a field of study since the 1970s, but the field
was born out of the Cold War. In the decades since the 1960s, pioneering research …

Abstract Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) and Richtmyer–Meshkov (RM) instabilities are well-known
pathways towards turbulent mixing layers, in many cases characterized by significant mass …

On December 5, 2022, an indirect drive fusion implosion on the National Ignition Facility
(NIF) achieved a target gain G target of 1.5. This is the first laboratory demonstration of …

For more than half a century, researchers around the world have been engaged in attempts
to achieve fusion ignition as a proof of principle of various fusion concepts. Following the …

The quest for controlled fusion energy has been ongoing for over a half century. The
demonstration of ignition and energy gain from thermonuclear fuels in the laboratory has …

The National Ignition Campaign (NIC) was a multi-institution effort established under the
National Nuclear Security Administration of DOE in 2005, prior to the completion of the …

In diverse areas of science and technology, including inertial confinement fusion (ICF),
astrophysics, geophysics, and engineering processes, turbulent mixing induced by …

In order to achieve the several hundred Gbar stagnation pressures necessary for inertial
confinement fusion ignition, implosion experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF)[EI …

Alpha-particle self-heating, the process of deuterium–tritium fusion reaction products
depositing their kinetic energy locally within a fusion reaction region and thus increasing the …

The locus of National Ignition Facility (NIF) inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosion data,
in hot-spot burn-average areal density (ρR) and Brysk temperature (T) space, is shown and …