Shock Timing and Yield Sensitivity Studies for NIF Ignition Capsules

Nif Ignition

Stability Analysis of Directly Driven NIF Capsules

LLE Review, Volume 81

National Ignition Facility (NIF) Neutron time-of-flight (nTOF) Measurements

Spherical Strong-Shock generation for Shock-ignition inertial fuSion

LLE Review, Volume 141 48 Introduction Shock ignition (SI)1–5 is an advanced concept in inertial confinement fusion (ICF)6 that is very promising and has the potential to provide significantly higher gains than conventional hot-spot ignition.7 SI is a two-step process where the fuel compression and ignition phases are separated by applying a highly shaped laser pulse with a duration of several ...

Signal and background considerations for the MRSt on the National Ignition Facility (NIF).

A Magnetic Recoil Spectrometer (MRSt) has been conceptually designed for time-resolved measurements of the neutron spectrum at the National Ignition Facility. Using the MRSt, the goals are to measure the time-evolution of the spectrum with a time resolution of ∼20-ps and absolute accuracy better than 5%. To meet these goals, a detailed understanding and optimization of the signal and background...