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Experimental Results on Advanced Inertial Fusion Schemes Obtained NUKLEONIKA 2012;57(1):3−10 ORIGINAL PAPER Experimental results Dimitri Batani, Leonida A. Gizzi, Petra Koester, Luca Labate, on advanced inertial fusion Javier Honrubia, Luca Antonelli, Alessio Morace, Luca Volpe, Jorge J. Santos, Guy Schurtz, schemes obtained Sebastien Hulin, Xavier Ribeyre, Philippe Nicolai, Benjamin Vauzour, within the HiPER project Fabien Dorchies, Wiger Nazarov, John Pasley, Maria Richetta, Kate Lancaster, Christopher Spindloe, Martin Tolley, David Neely, Michaela Kozlová, Jaroslav Nejdl, Bedrich Rus, Jerzy Wołowski, Jan Badziak Abstract. 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. Key words: advanced ignition schemes • fast ignition • shock ignition • inertial fusion • propagation of fast electrons • short-pulse ultra-high-intensity laser • shock compressed matter • cylindrical implosions Introduction D. Batani , J. J. Santos, G. Schurtz, S. Hulin, In 2006 the European Strategy Forum on Research X. Ribeyre, P. Nicolai, B. Vauzour, F. Dorchies Infrastructures (ESFRI) included the HiPER Project CELIA, Université de Bordeaux/CNRS/CEA, (European High Power Laser Energy Research Facility) Talence, 33405, France, in the European roadmap for Research Infrastructures. Tel.: +33 0 5 4000 3753, Fax: + 33 0 5 4000 2580, The goals of the HiPER project are to perform a feasi- E-mail: [email protected] bility study, choose a design and then construct a high- -energy laser facility for research on the production of L. A. Gizzi, P. Koester, L. Labate energy via inertial confinement fusion (ICF). HiPER will INO, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, PISA, Italy represent a possible follow-up to the National Ignition J. Honrubia Facility (NIF), the biggest laser in the world located at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the US, which has recently started the National L. Antonelli, A. Morace, L. Volpe Ignition Campaign (NIC) aimed at demonstrating the Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy scientific feasibility of inertial fusion by the end of 2012. W. Nazarov This paper presents the goals and some of the results University of St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9AJ, Scotland of experiments conducted within the Work Package 10 (fusion experimental programme) of the HiPER project. J. Pasley The aim of these experiments was to study the physics University of York, YO10 5DD, UK relevant for the so-called advanced ignition schemes M. Richetta (AIS), i.e. the fast ignition (FI) and the shock ignition Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy (SI) approaches to the inertial fusion. Such schemes allow for a higher gain compared to the indirect drive K. Lancaster, C. Spindloe, M. Tolley, D. Neely approach adopted in NIF. A higher gain is important Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK for the future fusion reactors and would be crucial in M. Kozlová, J. Nejdl, B. Rus achieving inertial fusion with smaller facilities. PALS, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague In particular, a series of experiments related to FI were performed at the RAL (UK) and LULI (France) J. Wołowski, J. Badziak laboratories, addressing issues such as the propagation Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, of fast electrons (produced by a short-pulse ultra- Warsaw, Poland -high-intensity beam) in a matter compressed either Received: 14 July 2011 by cylindrical implosions or by (planar) laser-driven Accepted: 14 November 2011 shockwaves. 4 D. Batani et al. More recently an experiment was performed at Several experiments were performed in the frame- PALS, in which the laser-plasma coupling was investi- work of the HiPER programme within the so-called gated at intensities of the order of 1016 W/cm2, i.e. in the “HiPER slots” at LULI, RAL, and PALS, which are the regime of interest for SI. This experiment was focused laser laboratories that had endorsed the HiPER project, on the study of the role of parametric instabilities in see Refs. [7, 8, 12]. the extended plasma corona, the possibility of creating Not all these experiments really followed a pro- strong shocks (in the hundreds of Mbar range), and the grammatic approach (the research conducted by the role of fast electrons produced during the interaction. laser-plasma community in Europe has always mainly been “curiosity-driven” therefore sometimes we must “learn” how to work in a different way). An important WP10 – the fusion experimental programme example of a more “programmatic” research is the series of experiments related to fast electron transport The goals of the HiPER project are to perform a follow- performed at RAL (UK) and LULI (France), which -up study after the NIF ignition and to prepare the way addressed the issue of propagation of fast electrons to future inertial fusion reactors. This must of course (produced by a short-pulse ultra-high-intensity beam) include all the “more technical” issues like: i) a study in the compressed matter, created either by a cylin- of high-energy and high-repetition laser drivers; ii) a drical implosion or by compression of planar target study of target mass production, injection, tracking and with (planar) laser-driven shockwaves. These will be positioning at high repetition frequency, and iii) studies described in section ‘Fast ignition approach to ICF’ of on chamber design, material resistance, material activa- the present paper. Most of the work that had been done tion, etc. at high radiation fluxes. is relevant mainly for the study of FI, simply because However, the main problem on the road to inertial fu- SI is a more recent approach. However, experiments sion is of a more general character. The NIF ignition will on SI have also been started (see section ‘Shock ignition be based on an indirect drive (ID) approach, which does approach to ICF’). not seem to be compatible with the requirements of future It is also important to note that apart from experi- commercial inertial fusion reactors. Indeed ID involves: ments performed within the HiPER time slots several i) complicated targets, ii) massive targets injecting a lot of other experiments of interest to FI and SI had been high-Z materials into the chamber, and above all iii) it is performed. In this case the synergy with the national intrinsically a low gain approach due to the intermediate research programmes and with the EU Laserlab infra- step of conversion to the X-ray radiation. structure was positive and essential. In addition, the indirect drive approach poses several “political” problems connected to the issues of nuclear non-proliferation and circulation of classified data. Fast ignition approach to ICF A possible way to achieve higher gain and to obtain simpler reactor designs is to adopt the direct drive (DD) A programmatic effort was undertaken within WP10 approach. Unfortunately, there are several physics in order to study the propagation of fast electrons in issues in this approach which had not been so far clari- matter. This is a key issue for the feasibility of fast fied. Pursuing the DD approach requires in particular ignition: a fast electron must travel through a region further studies on the hydrodynamics of target implo- where density is increasing from the critical density nc sions and methods for smoothing of non-uniformities, to the value of the order of 100 nc over a distance of and the possibility of realising the so-called advanced 200–300 μm, before depositing its energy in the high- ignition schemes, which may guarantee high gains while -density core of thermonuclear fuel. The propagation of relaxing the constraints on the target and irradiation fast electrons is of course affected by collisional effects uniformity (and also making possible to achieve inertial (i.e. the stopping power, which was studied already in fusion using smaller facilities...). The two most promis- the works of Bethe and Bloch), but also by the electric ing advanced ignition schemes are the FI [4, 5, 27] and and magnetic fields self-generated during the propaga- the SI [9, 20, 26]. tion. Such fields are indeed the main factors governing Within this context, the goals (and the problems) of the dynamics of the fast electron beam. They depend WP10, as well as of other Work Packages, have been: i) on the resistivity of the background material, which is to perform experiments addressing relevant questions very different for targets that are initially cold and for on the physics related to ICF, taking into account the compressed plasmas (collisional effects also depend on limitations of existing laser systems in Europe (and also the state of the target, although to a lesser extent). in the world...); ii) to build a scientific community in Different strategies are possible to study the fast Europe working not just on “laser-plasmas” but also on electron transport in dense plasmas. Of course ideally ICF-oriented issues. In particular, learn together how to we would like to perform spherical compression ex- realise lengthy and difficult programmatic experiments; periments, which guarantee higher compression factor iii) to address experimental issues where we have little and allow to attain higher ρr. However, such spherical competence (or lost it), i.e. hydrodynamics, instabilities, experiments are intrinsically integrated. Also, they do implosions, etc.; iv) to develop collaborations with US not provide any privileged axis for diagnostics. and Japan, and realise first collaborative experiments; Therefore we used two alternative and complemen- v) to make the European community “credible” in the tary approaches.
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