NUKLEONIKA 2012, 57(1):3-10

 


EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON ADVANCED INTERIALFUSION SCHEMES OBTAINED WITHIN THE HiPER PROJECT



Dimitri Batani1, Leonida A. Gizzi2, Petra Koester2,
Luca Labate2, Javier Honrubia3, Luca Antonelli4, Alessio Morace4, Luca Volpe4,
Jorge J. Santos1, Guy Schurtz1, Sebastien Hulin1, Xavier Ribeyre1, Philippe Nicolai1, Benjamin Vauzour1, Fabien Dorchies1, Wiger Nazarov5, John Pasley6, Maria Richetta7, Kate Lancaster8, Christopher Spindloe8, Martin Tolley8, David Neely8, Michaela Kozlová9, Jaroslav Nejdl9, Bedrich Rus9, Jerzy Wo³owski10, Jan Badziak10

1 CELIA, Université de Bordeaux/CNRS/CEA, Talence, 33405, France
2 INO, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, PISA, Italy
3 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
4 Universita di Milano Bicocca, Italy
5 University of St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9AJ, Scotland
6 University of York, YO10 5DD, UK
7 Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
8 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
9 PALS, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
10 Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw, Poland


This paper presents the results of experiments conducted within the Work Package 10 (fusion experimental programme) of the HiPER project. The aim of these experiments was to study the physics relevant for advanced ignition schemes for inertial confinement fusion, i.e. the fast ignition and the shock ignition. Such schemes allow to achieve a higher fusion gain compared to the indirect drive approach adopted in the National Ignition Facility in United States, which is important for the future inertial fusion energy reactors and for realising the inertial fusion with smaller facilities.


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