Speaker
Robert Scott
Description
See the full Abstract at http://ocs.ciemat.es/EPS2018ABS/pdf/P1.2030.pdf
Shock ignition is a promising route for laser fusion ignition; in principle high-gain can be
achieved with modest driver energies and hence capital investment. This poster will outline
ongoing collaborative experiments on the Omega, NIF and LMJ laser facilities which are
being performed to improve our understanding of the physics of shock ignition. In parallel we
are developing hydrodynamic simulation tools which contain self-consistent models of
kinetic laser-plasma interaction instabilities. By extensively benchmarking these new models
against the experimental data in plasma conditions of direct relevance to full-scale ignition
experiments, we aim to create robust design tools to evaluate the feasibility of this new
approach to laser fusion.
R.H.H.Scott, K.Glize, L.Antonelli, N.Woolsey, T. Arber, K. Bennett, W. Theobald, A.
Casner, D. Batani, R. Betti, V. Tikhonchuk, W. Garbett, Chikang Li, M. Wei, S. Atzeni.
