Review of the national ignition campaign 2009-2012

J Lindl, O Landen, J Edwards, E Moses, NIC team - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

A review of equation-of-state models for inertial confinement fusion materials

JA Gaffney, SX Hu, P Arnault, A Becker… - High Energy Density …, 2018 - Elsevier
Material equation-of-state (EOS) models, generally providing the pressure and internal
energy for a given density and temperature, are required to close the equations of …

A measurement of the equation of state of carbon envelopes of white dwarfs

AL Kritcher, DC Swift, T Döppner, B Bachmann… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
White dwarfs represent the final state of evolution for most stars,–. Certain classes of white
dwarfs pulsate,, leading to observable brightness variations, and analysis of these variations …

Multiphase equation of state for carbon addressing high pressures and temperatures

LX Benedict, KP Driver, S Hamel, B Militzer, T Qi… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We present a 5-phase equation of state for elemental carbon which addresses a wide range
of density and temperature conditions: 3 g/cc< ρ< 20 g/cc, 0 K< T<∞. The phases …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging velocity interferometer system for any reflector (VISAR) diagnostics for high energy density sciences

PM Celliers, M Millot - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Two variants of optical imaging velocimetry, specifically the one-dimensional streaked line-
imaging and the two-dimensional time-resolved area-imaging versions of the Velocity …

Adiabatic release measurements in -quartz between 300 and 1200 GPa: Characterization of -quartz as a shock standard in the multimegabar regime

MD Knudson, MP Desjarlais - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2013 - APS
α-quartz has been used prolifically in recent years as an impedance matching standard in
the multimegabar regime (1 Mbar= 100 GPa). This is due to the fact that above∼ 90–100 …

Implosion dynamics measurements at the National Ignition Facility

DG Hicks, NB Meezan, EL Dewald, AJ Mackinnon… - Physics of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Measurements have been made of the in-flight dynamics of imploding capsules indirectly
driven by laser energies of 1–1.7 MJ at the National Ignition Facility [Miller et al., Nucl …

First-principles thermal conductivity of warm-dense deuterium plasmas for inertial confinement fusion applications

SX Hu, LA Collins, TR Boehly, JD Kress… - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
Thermal conductivity (κ) of both the ablator materials and deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel plays
an important role in understanding and designing inertial confinement fusion (ICF) …

First-principles equation of state of polystyrene and its effect on inertial confinement fusion implosions

SX Hu, LA Collins, VN Goncharov, JD Kress… - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
Obtaining an accurate equation of state (EOS) of polystyrene (CH) is crucial to reliably
design inertial confinement fusion (ICF) capsules using CH/CH-based ablators. With first …

Absolute equation-of-state measurement for polystyrene from 25 to 60 Mbar using a spherically converging shock wave

T Döppner, DC Swift, AL Kritcher, B Bachmann… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We have developed an experimental platform for the National Ignition Facility that uses
spherically converging shock waves for absolute equation-of-state (EOS) measurements …