title: Progress toward ignition with noncryogenic double-shell capsules
abstract: Inertial confinement fusion implosions using capsules with two concentric shells separated by a low density region (double shells) are reported which closely follow one dimensional (1D) radiatively driven hydrodynamics simulations. Capsule designs which mitigate Au M-band radiation asymmetries appear to correspond more closely to 1D simulations than targets lacking mitigation of hohlraum drive M-band nonuniformities. One capsule design achieves over 50% of the unperturbed 1D calculated yield at a convergence ratio of 25.5, comparable to that of a double-shell design for an ignition capsule at the National Ignition Facility.
authors.affiliation: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Varnum
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Delamater
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Gobby
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Watt
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Colvin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Glebov
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Soures
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stoeckl