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confinement fusion. Hence imperfection is to be carefully prevented so surface finishing is extremely important, as during ICF laser shots, due to intense pressure and temperature, results are highly susceptible to hohlraum texture roughness. The fuel capsule must be precisely spherical, with texture roughness less than one nanometer, for fusion ignition to start. Otherwise, instability will cause fusion to fizzle. The fuel capsule contains a small fill hole with less than 5 microns diameter to inject the capsule with D-T gas.
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light elements such as plastic, beryllium, or high density carbon, i.e. diamond. The outer portion of the fuel capsule explodes outward when ablated by the x-rays produced by the hohlraum wall upon irradiation by lasers. Due to Newton's third law, the inner portion of the fuel capsule implodes, causing the D-T fuel to be supercompressed, activating a fusion reaction.
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hohlraum. The hohlraum body is manufactured using a high-Z (high atomic number) element, usually gold or uranium. Inside the hohlraum is a fuel capsule containing deuterium and tritium (D-T) fuel. A frozen layer of D-T ice adheres inside the fuel capsule. The fuel capsule wall is synthesized using
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during compression. Earlier designs had radiators at the ends of the hohlraum, but it proved difficult to maintain adequate X-ray symmetry with this geometry. By the end of the 1990s, target physicists developed a new family of designs in which the ion beams are absorbed in the hohlraum walls, so
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material. The radiation escaping through a small perforation in the wall of such a container will be a good approximation of black-body radiation at the temperature of the interior of the container. Indeed, a hohlraum can even be constructed from cardboard, as shown by Purcell's Black Body Box, a
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The hohlraum walls must have surface roughness less than 1 micron, and hence accurate machining is required during fabrication. Any imperfection of the hohlraum wall during fabrication will cause uneven and non-symmetrical compression of the fuel capsule inside the hohlraum during inertial
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Hohlraums are used in High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) and Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) experiments to convert laser energy to thermal x-rays for imploding capsules, heating targets, and generating thermal radiation waves. They may also be used in Nuclear Weapon designs.
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surrounding the capsule. With a judicious choice of absorbing materials, this arrangement, referred to as a "distributed-radiator" target, gives better X-ray symmetry and target gain in simulations than earlier designs.
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occurs when an object achieves thermodynamic equilibrium with an enclosing hohlraum. As a consequence of
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The X-ray intensity around the capsule must be very symmetrical to avoid
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Mockup of a gold-plated hohlraum designed for use in the
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that X-rays are radiated from a large fraction of the
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