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R. G. Adams
Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories
Publications - 34
Citations - 1062
R. G. Adams is an academic researcher from Sandia National Laboratories. The author has contributed to research in topics: Inertial confinement fusion & Laser. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 34 publications receiving 1005 citations.
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Pulsed-power-driven high energy density physics and inertial confinement fusion research
M. Keith Matzen,M. A. Sweeney,R. G. Adams,James R. Asay,James E. Bailey,Guy R. Bennett,David E. Bliss,D.D. Bloomquist,Thomas A. Brunner,R. B. Campbell,Gordon A. Chandler,Christine Anne Coverdale,M. E. Cuneo,J.-P. Davis,C. Deeney,Michael P. Desjarlais,G. L. Donovan,Christopher Joseph Garasi,Thomas A. Haill,C.A. Hall,David Lester Hanson,M. J. Hurst,Brent Manley Jones,Marcus D. Knudson,R. J. Leeper,Raymond W. Lemke,Michael G. Mazarakis,Dillon H. McDaniel,Thomas Alan Mehlhorn,Thomas J. Nash,Craig L. Olson,John L. Porter,Patrick K. Rambo,S.E. Rosenthal,Gregory Rochau,L. E. Ruggles,Chimpén Ruiz,T. W. L. Sanford,J. F. Seamen,D.B. Sinars,S. A. Slutz,Ian C. Smith,Kenneth W. Struve,William A. Stygar,Roger Alan Vesey,E.A. Weinbrecht,David Franklin Wenger,Edmund Yu +47 more
TL;DR: The Z accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories delivers ∼20MA load currents to create high magnetic fields (>1000T) and high pressures (megabar to gigabar) in a z-pinch configuration, the magnetic pressure supersonically implodes a plasma created from a cylindrical wire array, which at stagnation typically generates a plasma with energy densities of about 10MJ∕cm3 and temperatures >1keV at 0.1% of solid density as mentioned in this paper.
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Z-Beamlet: a multikilojoule, terawatt-class laser system
Patrick K. Rambo,Ian C. Smith,John L. Porter,M. J. Hurst,C. Shane Speas,R. G. Adams,Antonio J. Garcia,Ellis Dawson,Benjamin D. Thurston,Colleen Wakefield,Jeff W. Kellogg,Michael J. Slattery,H. C. Ives,R. S. Broyles,John A. Caird,Alvin C. Erlandson,J. E. Murray,W. Behrendt,Norman D. Neilsen,Joseph M. Narduzzi +19 more
TL;DR: A large-aperture (30-cm) kilojoule-class Nd:glass laser system known as Z-Beamlet has been constructed to perform x-ray radiography of high-energy-density science experiments conducted on the Z facility at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Monochromatic x-ray imaging experiments on the Sandia National Laboratories Z facility (invited)
Daniel Sinars,Guy R. Bennett,David Franklin Wenger,M. E. Cuneo,David Lester Hanson,John L. Porter,R. G. Adams,Patrick K. Rambo,Dean C. Rovang,Ian C. Smith +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used spherically bent crystals to backlight plasmas in this environment, which provided high spatial resolution (9-10μm), a narrow spectral bandpass (<0.5"eV), and a large field of view (4'mm×20'mm).
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Progress in symmetric ICF capsule implosions and wire-array z-pinch source physics for double-pinch-driven hohlraums
M. E. Cuneo,Roger Alan Vesey,Guy R. Bennett,Daniel Sinars,William A. Stygar,Eduardo Waisman,John L. Porter,Patrick K. Rambo,Ian C. Smith,Sergey Lebedev,Jerry Chittenden,David E. Bliss,Thomas J. Nash,Gordon A. Chandler,Bedros Afeyan,Edmund Yu,R. B. Campbell,R. G. Adams,David Lester Hanson,Thomas Alan Mehlhorn,Maurice Keith Matzen +20 more
TL;DR: In this article, the double-z-pinch indirect-drive, inertial confinement fusion (ICF) high-yield target concept was evaluated on the 20-MA Z accelerator.
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Compact single and nested tungsten-wire-array dynamics at 14-19MA and applications to inertial confinement fusiona)
M. E. Cuneo,D.B. Sinars,Eduardo Waisman,David E. Bliss,William A. Stygar,Roger Alan Vesey,Raymond W. Lemke,Ian C. Smith,Patrick K. Rambo,John L. Porter,Gordon A. Chandler,Thomas J. Nash,Michael G. Mazarakis,R. G. Adams,Edmund Yu,Kenneth W. Struve,Thomas Alan Mehlhorn,Sergey Lebedev,J. P. Chittenden,Christopher Jennings +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, the implosion dynamics of compact (20mm-diam), high-current (11-19MA), single and nested wire arrays have been investigated and the inner wires remain discrete during the outer array implosion, even for interwire gaps in the outer and inner arrays.