Petawatt laser direct heating of imploded plasmas and thermal neutron enhancement

Yoneyoshi Kitagawa; Shin Akamatsu; Wataru Sakamoto; Kazuo A. Tanaka; Ryosuke Kodama; Hiroaki Nishimura; Yuichi Inubushi; Mitsuo Nakai; Takeshi Watari; Takayoshi Norimatsu; Atsushi Sunahara; Yasuhiko Sentoku

Petawatt laser direct heating of imploded plasmas and thermal neutron enhancement

Yoneyoshi Kitagawa, Shin Akamatsu, Wataru Sakamoto, Kazuo A. Tanaka, Ryosuke Kodama, Hiroaki Nishimura, Yuichi Inubushi, Mitsuo Nakai, Takeshi Watari, Takayoshi Norimatsu, Atsushi Sunahara, Yasuhiko Sentoku

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Abstract

To heat an uniformly imploded deuterated polystyrene shell target, Petawatt laser illumination timing is scanned from the implosion, through stagnation to expansion or disruption phases. After 80 ± 20 picosecond from the onset of the stagnation phase but yet within it, thermal neutrons are four times enhanced from l × 10⁶. The timing exactly agrees with that of X-ray emission from the core. In the stagnation phase, beam fusion neutrons reduced to 1.5 times the thermal one. Temporal behaviours of Bremsstrahlung due to hot electrons and laser backscatterings support the the timing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications 2003
Editors	B.A. Hammel, D.D. Meyerhofer, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn
Pages	387-393
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	Third International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications, IFSA 2003 - Monterey, CA, United States Duration: Sept 7 2003 → Sept 12 2003

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Other	Third International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications, IFSA 2003
Country/Territory	United States
City	Monterey, CA
Period	9/7/03 → 9/12/03

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Kitagawa, Y., Akamatsu, S., Sakamoto, W., Tanaka, K. A., Kodama, R., Nishimura, H., Inubushi, Y., Nakai, M., Watari, T., Norimatsu, T., Sunahara, A., & Sentoku, Y. (2004). Petawatt laser direct heating of imploded plasmas and thermal neutron enhancement. In B. A. Hammel, D. D. Meyerhofer, & J. Meyer-ter-Vehn (Eds.), Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications 2003 (pp. 387-393)

Kitagawa, Y, Akamatsu, S, Sakamoto, W, Tanaka, KA, Kodama, R, Nishimura, H, Inubushi, Y, Nakai, M, Watari, T, Norimatsu, T, Sunahara, A & Sentoku, Y 2004, Petawatt laser direct heating of imploded plasmas and thermal neutron enhancement. in BA Hammel, DD Meyerhofer & J Meyer-ter-Vehn (eds), Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications 2003. pp. 387-393, Third International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications, IFSA 2003, Monterey, CA, United States, 9/7/03.

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