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Elliptical Magnetic Mirror generated via Resistivity Gradients for Fast Ignition ICF

Plasma Physics 2013-03-14 v1

Abstract

The elliptical magnetic mirror scheme for guiding fast electrons for Fast Ignition proposed by Schmitz (H.Schmitz et al., {\it Plasma Phys.Control.Fusion},{\bf 54} 085016 (2012)) is studied for conditions on the multi-kJ scale which are much closer to full-scale Fast Ignition. When scaled up, the elliptical mirror scheme is still highly beneficial to Fast Ignition. An increase in the coupling effiency by a factor of 3--4 is found over a wide range of fast electron divergence half-angles.

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@article{arxiv.1303.3142,
  title  = {Elliptical Magnetic Mirror generated via Resistivity Gradients for Fast Ignition ICF},
  author = {A. P. L. Robinson and H. Schmitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.3142},
  year   = {2013}
}