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Title:
The National Ignition Facility: Ushering in a new age for high energy density science
Authors:
Moses, E. I.; Boyd, R. N.; Remington, B. A.; Keane, C. J.; Al-Ayat, R.
Affiliation:
AA(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA), AB(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA), AC(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA), AD(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA), AE(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA)
Publication:
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 16, Issue 4, article id. 041006 13 pp. (2009). (PhPl Homepage)
Publication Date:
04/2009
Origin:
AIP
PACS Keywords:
Laser inertial confinement, Heavy-ion inertial confinement
Abstract Copyright:
2009: American Institute of Physics
DOI:
10.1063/1.3116505
Bibliographic Code:
2009PhPl...16d1006M

Abstract

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) [E. I. Moses, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 112, 012003 (2008); https://lasers.llnl.gov/], completed in March 2009, is the highest energy laser ever constructed. The high temperatures and densities achievable at NIF will enable a number of experiments in inertial confinement fusion and stockpile stewardship, as well as access to new regimes in a variety of experiments relevant to x-ray astronomy, laser-plasma interactions, hydrodynamic instabilities, nuclear astrophysics, and planetary science. The experiments will impact research on black holes and other accreting objects, the understanding of stellar evolution and explosions, nuclear reactions in dense plasmas relevant to stellar nucleosynthesis, properties of warm dense matter in planetary interiors, molecular cloud dynamics and star formation, and fusion energy generation.
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