Kinematics of plasticity-induced rotation during shock or ramp compression to extreme pressures

Morressier (2022)

Authors:

Justin Wark, Patrick Heighway

Slip competition and rotation suppression in tantalum and copper during dynamic uniaxial compression

Morressier (2022)

Authors:

Patrick Heighway, Justin Wark

A case study of using X-ray Thomson Scattering to diagnose the in-flight plasma conditions of DT cryogenic implosions

Physics of Plasmas AIP Publishing 29 (2022) 072703

Authors:

Hannah Poole, Muhammad Kasim, Sam Vinko, Gianluca Gregori

Abstract:

The design of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) ignition targets requires radiation-hydrodynamics simulations with accurate models of the fundamental material properties (i.e., equation of state, opacity, and conductivity). Validation of these models are required via experimentation. A feasibility study of using spatially-integrated, spectrally-resolved, X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) measurements to diagnose the temperature, density, and ionization of the compressed DT shell of a cryogenic DT implosion at two-thirds convergence was conducted. Synthetic scattering spectra were generated using 1-D implosion simulations from the LILAC code that were post processed with the X-ray Scattering (XRS) model which is incorporated within SPECT3D. Analysis of two extreme adiabat capsule conditions showed that the plasma conditions for both compressed DT shells could be resolved.

A case study of using x-ray Thomson scattering to diagnose the in-flight plasma conditions of DT cryogenic implosions

Physics of Plasmas 29, 072703 (2022)

Authors:

H. Poole, D. Cao, R. Epstein, I. Golovkin, T. Walton, S. X. Hu, M. Kasim, S. M. Vinko, J. R. Rygg, V. N. Goncharov, G. Gregori, and S. P. Regan

Abstract:

The design of inertial confinement fusion ignition targets requires radiation-hydrodynamics simulations with accurate models of the fundamental material properties (i.e., equation of state, opacity, and conductivity). Validation of these models is required via experimentation. A feasibility study of using spatially integrated, spectrally resolved, x-ray Thomson scattering measurements to diagnose the temperature, density, and ionization of the compressed DT shell of a cryogenic DT implosion at two-thirds convergence was conducted. Synthetic scattering spectra were generated using 1D implosion simulations from the LILAC code that were post processed with the x-ray scattering model, which is incorporated within SPECT3D. Analysis of two extreme adiabat capsule conditions showed that the plasma conditions for both compressed DT shells could be resolved.

An electron-beam based Compton scattering x-ray source for probing high-energy-density physics

(2022)

Authors:

HG Rinderknecht, G Bruhaug, V Muşat, G Gregori, H Poole, GW Collins