ABSTRACT

Nuclear Fusion by Inertial Confinement provides a comprehensive analysis of directly driven inertial confinement fusion. All important aspects of the process are covered, including scientific considerations that support the concept, lasers and particle beams as drivers, target fabrication, analytical and numerical calculations, and materials and engineering considerations. Authors from Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, and the U.S. have contributed to the volume, making it an internationally significant work for all scientists working in the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) field, as well as for graduate students in engineering and physics with interest in ICF.

chapter Chapter 2|29 pages

The Physics of Directly Driven Targets

chapter Chapter 5|32 pages

Ion Beams-Target Interaction

chapter Chapter 6|33 pages

Atomic Physics in Dense Plasmas

chapter Chapter 7|12 pages

Electron Heat Conduction in ICF Targets

chapter Chapter 8|13 pages

Radiation Transport in ICF Targets

chapter Chapter 9|30 pages

Charged-Particle Transport

chapter Chapter 10|27 pages

ICF Neutronics

chapter Chapter 11|24 pages

The Compression Phase in ICF Targets

chapter Chapter 14|20 pages

Solid-State Lasers for ICF

chapter Chapter 17|17 pages

Heavy-Ion Accelerators for ICF

chapter Chapter 20|17 pages

Diagnostics of Laser-Imploded Plasma

chapter Chapter 21|39 pages

Target Fabrication

chapter Chapter 22|42 pages

Laser-Driven ICF Experiments