Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Direct observation of imploded core heating via fast electrons with super-penetration scheme

  • T. Gong,
  • H. Habara,
  • K. Sumioka,
  • M. Yoshimoto,
  • Y. Hayashi,
  • S. Kawazu,
  • T. Otsuki,
  • T. Matsumoto,
  • T. Minami,
  • K. Abe,
  • K. Aizawa,
  • Y. Enmei,
  • Y. Fujita,
  • A. Ikegami,
  • H. Makiyama,
  • K. Okazaki,
  • K. Okida,
  • T. Tsukamoto,
  • Y. Arikawa,
  • S. Fujioka,
  • Y. Iwasa,
  • S. Lee,
  • H. Nagatomo,
  • H. Shiraga,
  • K. Yamanoi,
  • M. S. Wei,
  • K. A. Tanaka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13574-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Fast ignition is an interesting scheme for nuclear fusion reaction. Here the authors show electron generation using intense short laser pulses and energy transport by coupling the laser energy to the imploded plasma core as in the ICF conditions.