The MARBLE Campaign - Overview

ORAL

Abstract

MARBLE is a separated reactants campaign on the NIF that seeks to investigate the effects of heterogeneous mix on thermonuclear burn. MARBLE uses Si-doped plastic capsules filled with deuterated plastic foam and cryogenic hydrogen-tritium gas fills. Embedded in the foam are “macro-pores,” engineered voids in the foam of known sizes and locations, which allow for control of the level of heterogeneity prior to hydrodynamic mixing. In MARBLE implosions, the ratio of DT to DD neutron yield is measured, from which the degree to which material has mixed atomically can be deduced. The MARBLE team has successfully completed a one-shock platform development campaign on the NIF that demonstrated the ability to field and diagnose thermonuclear burn in engineered foam capsules. Initial results from the newly initiated MARBLE two-shock campaign will also be discussed.

*Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by the Los Alamos National Security, LLC Los Alamos National Laboratory under contract DEAC52-06NA25396.

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Presenters

  • Brian James Albright

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

Authors

  • Brian James Albright

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Thomas J Murphy

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Melissa Douglas

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Tana Cardenas

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL

  • James Hamilton Cooley

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Thomas H Day

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Carlos Di Stefano

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Robert A. Gore

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Mark Gunderson

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Jeff Haack

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Brian Michael Haines

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Christopher E Hamilton

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Y. H. Kim

    • Los Alamos National Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Matthew N Lee

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • John A Oertel

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • R. E. Olson

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Randall Blaine Randolph

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Rahul C Shah

    • Lab for Laser Energetics
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, U. of Rochester
    • Lab for Laser Energetics, Univ of Rochester

  • Joseph M Smidt

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Lin Yin

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory