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 …

The Lawson criterion is a key concept in the pursuit of fusion energy, relating the fuel density
n, pulse duration τ or energy confinement time τ E, and fuel temperature T to the energy gain …

We present experimental results from the first systematic study of performance scaling with
drive parameters for a magnetoinertial fusion concept. In magnetized liner inertial fusion …

Focusing laser light onto a very small target can produce the conditions for laboratory-scale
nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes. The lack of accurate predictive models, which are …

Focussing laser light onto the surface of a small target filled with deuterium and tritium
implodes it and leads to the creation of a hot and dense plasma, in which thermonuclear …

A detailed analytic model is presented here to investigate the physics of burn propagation in
inertially confined plasmas. The onset of ignition and burn propagation occurs when alpha …

Irradiating a small capsule containing deuterium and tritium fuel directly with intense laser
light causes it to implode, which creates a plasma hot enough to initiate fusion reactions …

Along with laser-indirect (X-ray)-drive and magnetic-drive target concepts, laser direct drive
is a viable approach to achieving ignition and gain with inertial confinement fusion. In the …

Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth is shown to be hydrodynamically scale invariant in
convergent cylindrical implosions for targets that varied in radial dimension and implosion …

One-dimensional metrics can be considered an upper bound on the performance that can
be achieved given an implosion with an imploding mass M imp and a given adiabat α …