Quantifying the Effect of Heterogeneous Mix on Thermonuclear Burn in the Marble Campaign

ORAL

Abstract

The recently concluded Marble campaign [T J Murphy et al, J Phys:Conf Series 717, 012072 (2016)] on the National Ignition Facility quantified the effect of heterogeneous mix on thermonuclear burn for comparison to a probability distribution function (PDF) burn model. [J R Fincke, unpublished; J R Ristorcelli, Phys Fluids 29, 020705 (2017).] MARBLE utilized plastic capsules filled with deuterated plastic foam and tritium-containing gas. The final experiments, which utilized an argon-tritium gas mixture, show the expected decrease in DT/DD yield ratio with non-uniform initial foam morphology, while previous experiments with a hydrogen-tritium gas mixture did not. [T J Murphy et al, High Energy. Dens. Phys. 38,100929 (2021).]

*This work is supported by US DOE/NNSA, performed at LANL, operated by Triad National Security LLC under contract 89233218CNA000001.

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Presenters

  • Thomas J Murphy

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

Authors

  • Thomas J Murphy

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Brian J Albright

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Melissa R Douglas

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • James H Cooley

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Thomas Day

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Carlos A Di Stefano

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Rob A Gore

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Mark A Gunderson

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Jeff Haack

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Brian M Haines

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL

  • Chris E Hamilton

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Yongho Kim

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

  • Matthew N Lee

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Tana Morrow

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • John A Oertel

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Rick E Olson

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Randall B Randolph

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Joseph M Smidt

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Lin Yin

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • Rahul C Shah

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