Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Magnetized fast isochoric laser heating for efficient creation of ultra-high-energy-density states

  • Shohei Sakata,
  • Seungho Lee,
  • Hiroki Morita,
  • Tomoyuki Johzaki,
  • Hiroshi Sawada,
  • Yuki Iwasa,
  • Kazuki Matsuo,
  • King Fai Farley Law,
  • Akira Yao,
  • Masayasu Hata,
  • Atsushi Sunahara,
  • Sadaoki Kojima,
  • Yuki Abe,
  • Hidetaka Kishimoto,
  • Aneez Syuhada,
  • Takashi Shiroto,
  • Alessio Morace,
  • Akifumi Yogo,
  • Natsumi Iwata,
  • Mitsuo Nakai,
  • Hitoshi Sakagami,
  • Tetsuo Ozaki,
  • Kohei Yamanoi,
  • Takayoshi Norimatsu,
  • Yoshiki Nakata,
  • Shigeki Tokita,
  • Noriaki Miyanaga,
  • Junji Kawanaka,
  • Hiroyuki Shiraga,
  • Kunioki Mima,
  • Hiroaki Nishimura,
  • Mathieu Bailly-Grandvaux,
  • João Jorge Santos,
  • Hideo Nagatomo,
  • Hiroshi Azechi,
  • Ryosuke Kodama,
  • Yasunobu Arikawa,
  • Yasuhiko Sentoku,
  • Shinsuke Fujioka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06173-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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It is desirable to deposit more energy in the dense plasma core to trigger the fusion ignition. Here the authors demonstrate enhanced energy coupling from laser to plasma core by using solid targets and guiding the transport of relativistic electron beam with external magnetic field.