The Bigfoot Drive; Experimental Results

ORAL

Abstract

The Bigfoot platform was developed on the National Ignition Facility to investigate low convergence, high adiabat, high rhoR hotspot implosions. This platform was designed to be less susceptible to wall motion, LPI and CBET and to be more robust against capsule hydrodynamic instabilities. To date experimental studies have been carried out at two hohlraum scales, a 5.75 and 5.4 mm diameter hohlraum. We will present experimental results from these tuning campaigns including the shape vs. cone fraction, surrogacy comparisons of self-emission from the capsules vs. radiography of the imploding capsule and doped vs. undoped capsules. Prepared by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.

Authors

  • Kevin Baker

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Lab
    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Cliff Thomas

    • Lawrence Livermore National Lab
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Shahab khan

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Daniel Casey

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Brian Spears

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Ryan Nora

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • David Munro

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • D. Eder

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
    • LLNL
  • Jose Milovich

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Dick Berger

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • David Strozzi

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Clement Goyon

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • David Turnbull

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Tammy Ma

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
    • LLNL
  • Nobuhiko Izumi

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Robin Benedetti

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Marius Millot

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Peter Celliers

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Charles Yeamans

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Robert Hatarik

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • Landen Otto

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
  • O. A. Hurricane

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • D. A. Callahan

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • LLNL