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A collision of supersonic jets in the double-cone ignition scheme is realized experimentally. With a very high deceleration, the supersonic jets merge into a high density plasma core, which will be further fast heated to ignition condition. Both the density and temperature of the plasma core are increased due to nearly 100% of kinetic energy of the jets converted into the internal energy. Some diagnostic tools are used to characterize the plasma, including X-ray Thomson scattering, hard X-ray monochromatic backlighting, X-ray streak imaging and framing imaging. The density of the supersonic jet arrive at about 5.5–8 g/cm3. During colliding, a stagnation phase lasts about 200 ps, and the maximum density of the plasma core is increased to (46 ± 24) g/cm3. By analyzing the velocity and temperature before and after colliding, it is found that 90% of the kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy.
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Keywords:
- inertial confinement fusion /
- fast ignition /
- double-cone ignition
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图 1 实验设计 (a)等熵压缩激光波形设计, 以及该波形下的压缩流线; (b)实验设置, 主要的X射线诊断分布
Figure 1. Design of the experiment: (a) The profile of laser pulse, together with the implosion of the fuel shell; (b) configuration of the experiment setup, X-ray images for the compressed plasma are installed on the horizontal plane.
图 2 X射线条纹成像 (a)双锥靶照片, 沿轴线的等离子体成像在条纹相机的光阴极; (b)单锥口喷出等离子体; (c)双锥对撞等离子体
Figure 2. X-ray streak image: (a) The target configuration of double cones, the plasma along the cone axis is imaged; (b) the plasma jet from a single cone, ejecting time and the vertical velocity were measured; (c) the colliding plasma from double cones. All images are illustrated in same color scale.
图 3 X射线汤姆逊散射光谱 (a)温度拟合; (b)电子密度拟合
Figure 3. X-ray Thomson scattering spectrum: (a) Temperature fitting; (b) the average density fitting.
图 4 对撞等离子体二维时间演化 (a)不同时刻双锥顶中心对撞等离子体自发光图像; (b)自发光区域横向、纵向和光强随时间演化信息
Figure 4. Two-dimensional temporal evolution of the colliding plasma: (a) Self emission from the colliding plasma in the center of the double cone tips; (b) evolution of size and brightness of the colliding plasma core.
图 5 X射线单色背光成像 (a)压缩前时刻双锥阴影图; (b)双锥对撞最大压缩时刻阴影图; (c)单锥喷出等离子体阴影; (d)对撞等离子体密度、面密度随时间演化; (e)对撞等离子体横向密度、面密度分布; (f)单锥口等离子体横向密度、面密度分布
Figure 5. X-ray monochromatic backlighting radiography: (a) The radiography image of double cone before compression time. Row data of an undriven double cone target, the shape of the cone is clearly seen, and the bright spots on the top and bottom are the self-emission from the laser ablated shells. (b) The radiography image of a colliding plasma at the maximum compression time. (c) The radiography image from a single cone. (d) The time revolution of the colliding plasma density ρ and areal density ρD before and after the maximum compression. (e) Line profile of the ρ and ρD at the center of the cones for panel (b). (f) Line profile of the ρ and ρD at the center of the cones for panel (c).
图 6 满足Lawson条件的面密度(ρR)和温度(T)的关系, 红色区域为聚变能正增益参数范围
Figure 6. Relationship of ρR and T for Lawson condition. The red dot area is condition for a fusion energy positive gain.
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[1] Lindl J D 1994 AIP Conference Proceedings 318 635
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[24] Atzeni S, Meyer-ter-Vehn J 2009 The Physics of Inertial Fusion: Beam Plasma Interaction, Hydrodynamics, Hot Dense Matter (International Series of Monographs on Physics) (Oxford: Oxford University Press) p39
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