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E. L. Dewald
Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Publications - 190
Citations - 8259
E. L. Dewald is an academic researcher from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: National Ignition Facility & Hohlraum. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 175 publications receiving 6987 citations.
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Fuel gain exceeding unity in an inertially confined fusion implosion
Omar Hurricane,D. A. Callahan,Daniel Casey,P. M. Celliers,C. J. Cerjan,E. L. Dewald,T. R. Dittrich,Tilo Döppner,D. E. Hinkel,L. F. Berzak Hopkins,John Kline,S. Le Pape,T. Ma,Andrew MacPhee,Jose Milovich,Art Pak,H.-S. Park,P. K. Patel,Bruce Remington,Jay D. Salmonson,P. T. Springer,R. Tommasini +21 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the achievement of fusion fuel gains exceeding unity on the US National Ignition Facility using a high-foot implosion method, which is a manipulation of the laser pulse shape in a way that reduces instability in the implosion.
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Symmetric inertial confinement fusion implosions at ultra-high laser energies.
Siegfried Glenzer,B. J. MacGowan,Pierre Michel,Nathan Meezan,L. J. Suter,S. N. Dixit,John Kline,G. A. Kyrala,D. K. Bradley,D. A. Callahan,E. L. Dewald,Laurent Divol,E. G. Dzenitis,M. J. Edwards,Alex V. Hamza,C. A. Haynam,D. E. Hinkel,Daniel H. Kalantar,J. D. Kilkenny,Otto Landen,J. D. Lindl,Sebastien LePape,John Moody,Abbas Nikroo,T. G. Parham,Marilyn Schneider,Richard Town,Paul J. Wegner,Klaus Widmann,Pamela K. Whitman,B. K. F. Young,B. M. Van Wonterghem,L. J. Atherton,Edward I. Moses +33 more
TL;DR: Experiments at the National Ignition Facility indicate that the conditions are suitable for compressing deuterium-tritium–filled capsules, with the goal of achieving burning fusion plasmas and energy gain in the laboratory.
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Progress Towards Ignition on the National Ignition Facility
M. J. Edwards,P. K. Patel,J. D. Lindl,L. J. Atherton,Siegfried Glenzer,S. W. Haan,J. D. Kilkenny,O. L. Landen,Edward I. Moses,A. Nikroo,R. D. Petrasso,T. C. Sangster,P. T. Springer,Steven H. Batha,R. Benedetti,L. A. Bernstein,Riccardo Betti,D. L. Bleuel,T. R. Boehly,D. K. Bradley,J. A. Caggiano,D. A. Callahan,P. M. Celliers,C. J. Cerjan,K. C. Chen,Daniel Clark,Gilbert Collins,E. L. Dewald,Laurent Divol,S. N. Dixit,Tilo Doeppner,D. H. Edgell,James E. Fair,Michael Farrell,R. J. Fortner,Johan Frenje,M. Gatu Johnson,E. M. Giraldez,V. Yu. Glebov,Gary Grim,B. A. Hammel,A. V. Hamza,D. R. Harding,S. P. Hatchett,N. Hein,Hans W. Herrmann,Damien Hicks,D. E. Hinkel,M. Hoppe,W. W. Hsing,Nobuhiko Izumi,B. Jacoby,O. S. Jones,Daniel H. Kalantar,Robert L. Kauffman,John Kline,J. P. Knauer,J. A. Koch,B. J. Kozioziemski,G. A. Kyrala,K. N. LaFortune,S. Le Pape,R. J. Leeper,R. A. Lerche,T. Ma,B. J. MacGowan,A. J. Mackinnon,Andrew MacPhee,Evan Mapoles,M. M. Marinak,M. Mauldin,P. W. McKenty,M. Meezan,Pierre Michel,Jose Milovich,J. D. Moody,Matthew Moran,D. H. Munro,C. L. Olson,Kathy Opachich,Art Pak,T. G. Parham,H.-S. Park,Joseph Ralph,Sean Regan,Bruce Remington,H. G. Rinderknecht,Harry Robey,M. D. Rosen,Steven Ross,Jay D. Salmonson,J. D. Sater,D. H. Schneider,Fredrick Seguin,Scott Sepke,D. A. Shaughnessy,V. A. Smalyuk,Brian Spears,Christian Stoeckl,Wolfgang Stoeffl,L. J. Suter,Cliff Thomas,R. Tommasini,Richard Town,S. V. Weber,Paul J. Wegner,K. Widman,Mark D. Wilke,Doug Wilson,Charles Yeamans,Alex Zylstra +110 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a low-Z capsule filled with deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel via laser indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion and demonstrate fusion ignition and propagating thermonuclear burn with a net energy gain of ∼5-10 (fusion yield/input laser energy).
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Onset of hydrodynamic mix in high-velocity, highly compressed inertial confinement fusion implosions.
T. Ma,P. K. Patel,Nobuhiko Izumi,P. T. Springer,M. H. Key,L. J. Atherton,Laura Robin Benedetti,D. K. Bradley,D. A. Callahan,P. M. Celliers,C. J. Cerjan,Daniel Clark,E. L. Dewald,S. N. Dixit,Tilo Döppner,D. H. Edgell,Reuben Epstein,S. M. Glenn,Gary Grim,S. W. Haan,B. A. Hammel,Damien Hicks,W. W. Hsing,O. S. Jones,Shahab Khan,J. D. Kilkenny,John Kline,G. A. Kyrala,Otto Landen,S. Le Pape,B. J. MacGowan,A. J. Mackinnon,Andrew MacPhee,Nathan Meezan,J. D. Moody,Art Pak,T. G. Parham,H.-S. Park,Joseph Ralph,Sean Regan,Bruce Remington,Harry Robey,Jason Ross,Brian Spears,V. A. Smalyuk,L. J. Suter,R. Tommasini,Richard Town,S. V. Weber,J. D. Lindl,Melissa Edwards,Siegfried Glenzer,Edward I. Moses +52 more
TL;DR: The comparison with radiation-hydrodynamic modeling indicates that low mode asymmetries and increased ablator surface perturbations may be responsible for the current performance of deuterium-tritium inertial confinement fusion implosion experiments.
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Dante soft x-ray power diagnostic for National Ignition Facility
E. L. Dewald,K. M. Campbell,R. E. Turner,J. P. Holder,Otto Landen,Siegfried Glenzer,Robert L. Kauffman,L. J. Suter,M. Landon,Michelle Rhodes,D. Lee +10 more
TL;DR: The NIF Dante will include a central four-channel imaging line-of-sight to verify the source size, alignment as well as checking for any radiation contributions from unconverted....