Simple analytic fusion hot spot models for fusion reaction history
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The measured fusion reaction history is a combination of the temporal evolution of the fusion hot spot temperature, mass, and volume. Depending on the mechanism of evolution in inertial confinement fusion implosions—shocks, compression, convergence, mass ablation, ignition—the evolution of the reaction history varies. Here, we derive and catalog a set of simplified inertial confinement fusion hot spot models with analytic solutions to infer the evolution of the fusion reaction history for each mechanism. The models give valuable insight into the meaning and cause of fusion reaction history and nuclear burnwidth measurements.
Source: Physics of Plasmas
DOI: 10.1063/5.0284406
Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Award: G1279347439
OpenAlex ID: W4416929358