R. Fallah , R. Khooniki , A. Esmaeili Karnawah , H. Golnarkar , A.R. Niknam
{"title":"Effect of external magnetic field inhomogeneity on the nonlinear absorption of intense laser pulse in inhomogeneous warm plasma","authors":"R. Fallah , R. Khooniki , A. Esmaeili Karnawah , H. Golnarkar , A.R. Niknam","doi":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies the propagation of an intense laser pulse and the collisional absorption in an inhomogeneous warm plasma by taking into account the external magnetic field inhomogeneity and the ponderomotive force. The calculations are carried out and compared for different magnetic field strengths and their various configurations. For this purpose, using the hydrodynamic equations, the electron density and hence the effective dielectric permittivity of the magneto-active warm plasma are derived and the nonlinear wave equation is solved through the numerical method of Runge–Kutta. The results show that increasing the strength of the external magnetic field causes an increase in the absorption coefficient and the linear magnetic field has a higher influence on the absorption coefficient with respect to the wiggler and constant magnetic fields. Moreover, when the electron temperature increases, the amplitude of the laser field and the absorption coefficient are increased and the spatial damping rate of the laser pulse takes a peak in the plasma. The results also indicate that increasing the energy of the laser pulse causes a decrease in the nonlinear absorption, and the laser energy spatial damping is significantly decreased in contrast to the growth of the amplitude of the laser field. A qualitative comparison of the results indicates that if a linear magnetic field is applied in the same direction of the laser propagation, the collisional absorption rate will be larger with respect to the other magnetic fields. Moreover, the difference in the influence of the mentioned magnetic fields on the collisional absorption increases with increasing the electron temperature and normalized cyclotron frequency and decreases with increasing laser intensity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49267,"journal":{"name":"High Energy Density Physics","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101162"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143173959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shahab F. Khan, Laurent Divol, Art Pak, Terance Hilsabeck, Bernard Kozioziemski, Benjamin Bachmann, Andrew G. MacPhee, Clement Trosseille
{"title":"Dynamic localized hot spot mix extraction from images in ICF experiments","authors":"Shahab F. Khan, Laurent Divol, Art Pak, Terance Hilsabeck, Bernard Kozioziemski, Benjamin Bachmann, Andrew G. MacPhee, Clement Trosseille","doi":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments at the National Ignition Facility, time-resolved x-ray images of the central hot spot are captured to diagnose the compression, symmetry and relative amount of mixed material. In this work, we extract bright localized mix features from the images to (1) obtain a more accurate measurement of the hot spot size (compression), (2) match the feature to known capsule defects, and (3) estimate the internal hot spot flow velocity. A new extraction tool was developed that uses derivatives of the size of the hot spot vs contour level to automatically pick out the localized mix features. The size of the “clean” hot spot is larger than that measured with the traditional hot spot analysis routines by 10–30 %. Additionally, since the images are time-resolved, the velocities of the localized mix features can be measured and give an indication of internal flows of the hot spot.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49267,"journal":{"name":"High Energy Density Physics","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101160"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142719685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jean-Christophe Pain , Daniel Aberg , Brian G. Wilson
{"title":"On the number of atomic configurations in hot plasmas","authors":"Jean-Christophe Pain , Daniel Aberg , Brian G. Wilson","doi":"10.1016/j.hedp.2025.101174","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hedp.2025.101174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We propose approximate and accurate formulas for the number of electron configurations in hot plasmas. Such a quantity is an ingredient of algorithms devoted to the generation of configurations or superconfigurations, which is a pre-requisite of opacity calculations. One of the main formulas involves Bessel functions of fractional order and the procedure for improving the accuracy through a series expansion is explained.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49267,"journal":{"name":"High Energy Density Physics","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101174"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143173958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pseudoatom molecular dynamics plasma microfields","authors":"J.R. White , C.J. Fontes , M.C. Zammit , T.A. Gomez , C.E. Starrett","doi":"10.1016/j.hedp.2025.101173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hedp.2025.101173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Spectral lines are powerful diagnostic tools for both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, as their shape is sensitive to the plasma environment. The low-frequency component of the electric microfield is an important input for semi-analytic line broadening codes. In this paper we detail a new method of calculating plasma microfields using configuration-resolved pseudoatom molecular dynamics. This approach accounts for both quantum atomic structure and N-body effects, similar to density functional theory molecular dynamics, but with less computational cost. We present pseudoatom microfields at plasma conditions relevant for recent high energy density laboratory astrophysics experiments conducted at the Sandia Z-Machine, National Ignition Facility, and Linac Coherent Light Source. Compared to established microfield codes we find moderate deviations at solid density conditions and strong agreement at lower plasma densities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49267,"journal":{"name":"High Energy Density Physics","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101173"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143173961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Aberg , Brian G. Wilson , Jean-Christophe Pain
{"title":"A new approach to include electron interaction effects in super transition array opacity theory","authors":"Daniel Aberg , Brian G. Wilson , Jean-Christophe Pain","doi":"10.1016/j.hedp.2025.101175","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hedp.2025.101175","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A method is presented for the improved calculation of super-shell partition functions which include the repulsive electron–electron interaction energy terms in the Boltzmann factor. Heretofore these interaction terms were approximately treated via the use of Feynman–Jensen inequalities. Such investigations are of particular interest for the super-transition-array approach of hot-plasma radiative opacity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49267,"journal":{"name":"High Energy Density Physics","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101175"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143278501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abd Essamade Saufi, Hannah Bellenbaum , Martin Read, Nicolas Niasse, Sean Barrett, Nicholas Hawker, Nathan Joiner, David Chapman
{"title":"FLAIM: A reduced volume ignition model for the compression and thermonuclear burn of spherical fuel capsules","authors":"Abd Essamade Saufi, Hannah Bellenbaum , Martin Read, Nicolas Niasse, Sean Barrett, Nicholas Hawker, Nathan Joiner, David Chapman","doi":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101159","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101159","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present the “First Light Advanced Ignition Model” (FLAIM), a reduced model for the implosion, adiabatic compression, volume ignition and thermonuclear burn of a spherical DT fuel capsule utilising a high-Z metal pusher. <span>FLAIM</span> is characterised by a highly modular structure, which makes it an appropriate tool for optimisations, sensitivity analyses and parameter scans. One of the key features of the code is the 1D description of the hydrodynamic operator, which has a minor impact on the computational efficiency, but allows us to gain a major advantage in terms of physical accuracy. We demonstrate that a more accurate treatment of the hydrodynamics plays a primary role in closing most of the gap between a simple model and a general 1D rad-hydro code, and that only a residual part of the discrepancy is attributable to the heat losses. We present a detailed quantitative comparison between FLAIM and 1D rad-hydro simulations, showing good agreement over a large parameter space in terms of temporal profiles of key physical quantities, ignition maps and typical burn metrics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49267,"journal":{"name":"High Energy Density Physics","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101159"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142530761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maher Ali Rusho , Ihsan A. Alduhan , Adil Ismael Mohammed , Hayder Hamid Abbas Al-Anbari , Aseel Salah Mansoor , Usama Kadem Radi , Amir H. Idean , Ahmad J. Obaidullah , Hala Bahair , Anupam Yadav
{"title":"Investigating the suitability of pristine and defective C3N monolayer as supercapacitor electrodes: DFT calculations","authors":"Maher Ali Rusho , Ihsan A. Alduhan , Adil Ismael Mohammed , Hayder Hamid Abbas Al-Anbari , Aseel Salah Mansoor , Usama Kadem Radi , Amir H. Idean , Ahmad J. Obaidullah , Hala Bahair , Anupam Yadav","doi":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101154","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The possibility of utilizing defected C<sub>3</sub>N monolayers as the electrodes of supercapacitors (SCs) was investigated in the current study by performing DFT computations. A single-vacancy C<sub>3</sub>N monolayer (SC<sub>3</sub>NML), a double-vacancy C<sub>3</sub>N monolayer (DC<sub>3</sub>NM) and a pure C<sub>3</sub>N monolayer (PC<sub>3</sub>NML) were investigated. The charge plots, quantum capacitance (QC) and the density of state of SC<sub>3</sub>NML, DC<sub>3</sub>NM and PC<sub>3</sub>NML were also studied. Based on the results, the QC of SC<sub>3</sub>NML and DC<sub>3</sub>NM at voltages between -0.80 and 0.80 V was more compared to the QC of PC<sub>3</sub>NML. It was possible to use SC<sub>3</sub>NML as a negative electrode and DC<sub>3</sub>NM as a positive electrode, both of which were p-type semi-conductors. The stored charge in the SC<sub>3</sub>NML and DC<sub>3</sub>NM was higher compared to the stored charge in PC<sub>3</sub>NML at voltages 0 to 0.8 V. The charge stored in DC<sub>3</sub>NM was higher than the stored charge in SC<sub>3</sub>NML and PC<sub>3</sub>NML. Finally, DC<sub>3</sub>NML layer can be regarded as an encouraging electrode for application in SCs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49267,"journal":{"name":"High Energy Density Physics","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142148471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jens Schwarz , Brian Hutsel , Thomas Awe , Bruno Bauer , Jacob Banasek , Eric Breden , Joe Chen , Michael Cuneo , Katherine Chandler , Karen DeZetter , Mark Gilmore , Matthew Gomez , Hannah Hasson , Maren Hatch , Nathan Hines , Trevor Hutchinson , Deanna Jaramillo , Christine Kalogeras Loney , Ian Kern , Derek Lamppa , Kevin Yates
{"title":"Mykonos: A pulsed power driver for science and innovation","authors":"Jens Schwarz , Brian Hutsel , Thomas Awe , Bruno Bauer , Jacob Banasek , Eric Breden , Joe Chen , Michael Cuneo , Katherine Chandler , Karen DeZetter , Mark Gilmore , Matthew Gomez , Hannah Hasson , Maren Hatch , Nathan Hines , Trevor Hutchinson , Deanna Jaramillo , Christine Kalogeras Loney , Ian Kern , Derek Lamppa , Kevin Yates","doi":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101144","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101144","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sandia National Laboratories has been operating the Mykonos linear transformer driver (LTD) in a five-cavity configuration since 2014. The machine operates at 1<!--> <!-->MA output current, 500<!--> <!-->kV output voltage, with a 10–90% current rise time of 85<!--> <!-->ns, which enables small scale physics and engineering pulsed power experiments. Mykonos provides hands-on pulsed power experimental training for students and staff alongside senior Sandia scientists in an environment that is more accessible than the Z Facility. Over the years, we have fielded and accumulated a wide variety of optical, x-ray and electrical diagnostics and we are preparing to open this facility to outside users. Here, we are presenting the pulsed power and diagnostic capability of Mykonos as well as some recent experiments that have been performed on the facility. The goal of this publication is to attract researchers across the pulsed power and high energy density (HED) community to collaborate with Sandia on exciting, innovative science and to train the next generation of researchers for the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) and the nation. As such, we have established a Mykonos Academic Access Program (MAAP) as part of ZNetUS to enable academic utilization of the Mykonos Pulsed Power Facility.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49267,"journal":{"name":"High Energy Density Physics","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574181824000697/pdfft?md5=45d54956ff92e35e2faebd1e3eec6f99&pid=1-s2.0-S1574181824000697-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142148472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William Riedel , Nathan Meezan , Drew Higginson , Matthias Hohenberger , Mark Cappelli
{"title":"2D kinetic-ion simulations of inverted corona fusion targets","authors":"William Riedel , Nathan Meezan , Drew Higginson , Matthias Hohenberger , Mark Cappelli","doi":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Laser-driven “inverted corona” fusion targets have attracted interest as a low-convergence neutron source and platform for studying kinetic physics. The scheme consists of a hollow or gas-filled spherical shell made of deuterated plastic. The shell has one or more laser entrance holes (LEH), resembling a spherical hohlraum. The laser passes through the LEH’s and illuminates the interior surface of the shell, ablating a plasma that travels inward towards the target center. Long ion mean free paths in the converging plasma can lead to significant interpenetration, atomic mix, and other kinetic effects. In this work we report on numerical simulations of inverted corona targets using the kinetic-ion, fluid–electron hybrid particle-in-cell (PIC) approach in 2D RZ geometry. 2D simulations suggest that shape effects do not have a significant impact on plasma evolution and observed yield trends are primarily the result of 1D kinetic mix mechanisms. Simulations are also compared against available experimental data recorded at the OMEGA laser facility. In particular, synthetic x-ray emission images show good qualitative agreement with experimental results, albeit with an apparent timing discrepancy for the two-sided vacuum target. More generally, we demonstrate the potential of hybrid-PIC simulations for full-system modeling and experimental design, including collisional absorption of laser energy, plasma evolution, mix, and fusion burn.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49267,"journal":{"name":"High Energy Density Physics","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142148344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qiang-Lin Hu , Yan-Chao She , Wen Hu , Jin-Peng Xiao , Zheng-Guo Xiao
{"title":"Propagation of circularly polarized electromagnetic wave in magnetized spin plasma","authors":"Qiang-Lin Hu , Yan-Chao She , Wen Hu , Jin-Peng Xiao , Zheng-Guo Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hedp.2024.101155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The spin effects on the propagation characteristic of circularly polarized electromagnetic (EM) wave in high density strongly magnetized plasma are discussed based on the the classical hydrodynamical model of relativistic spin plasma. The dielectric coefficients for right-hand circularly polarized (RCP) and left-hand circularly polarized (LCP) waves are obtained. Results show that the spin effects can affect the propagation characteristic of circularly polarized EM wave dramatically. Provided the spin effect is strong enough, LCP waves can also propagate in the magnetized over-dense plasma, while RCP waves may not. The strength of spin effects can be enhanced by increasing the plasma density or/and EM wave intensity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49267,"journal":{"name":"High Energy Density Physics","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 101155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142148343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}