ON ELEVENTH

As well as advancing inertial fusion energy research, scientists from around the world are using HED facilities to explore fundamental scientific questions that are of broad interest to the entire scientific field. Particular areas of emphasis have been the behavior of matter at conditions found in planets and stars, plasma astrophysics, relativistic plasma physics, and fundamental high energy density science. Finally, 3rd generation, ultra-short, rep-rated multi-petawatt lasers are worldwide opening up new fields of research based on the investigation of the extreme states reached in relativistic laser-plasma interactions, and on their potential applications... Externally assisted fusion research is also progressing. Strong shocks - launched at pressures of several hundred Mbars - were produced in direct-drive planar and spherical experiments on OMEGA and on the LIL (France), providing supporting evidence towards shock ignition. As for fast ignition, using a strong external magnetic..

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