Symmetry in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion—Dedicated to 100th Anniversary of Birth of N. G. Basov
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 2403
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Academician Nikolai G. Basov, the Nobel Prize winner for the development of fundamental principles of masers and lasers. He was also the ideologue and inspirer of Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF), based on a thermonuclear (TN) reaction in a mixture of deuterium and tritium (DT) in a spherical target irradiated by a high-power laser. He initiated ICF research in the Division of Quantum Radiophysics headed by him at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute and published pioneer results in this field 50 years ago.
The past year has been marked by an outstanding achievement: The NIF installation at the LLNL (USA) demonstrated thermonuclear burning and near breakeven microexplosion energy very close to the expended laser energy. The symmetry of a TN target itself, irradiation symmetry and a symmetric implosion with minimal hydrodynamic instabilities were the key topics of this success. In the next step, the most energetically efficient ICF layouts should be discovered, efficient and reliable rep-rate laser drivers operating at 5-10 Hz should be developed, smooth cryogenic DT targets should be mass produced, and material studies should be carried out for laser optics and TN reactor walls with high resistance to ionizing radiation, etc., to verify the Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) power plant for electricity production with an economically attractive cost. At present, a huge amount of scientific and technical resources of many countries are being collated to achieve this ambitious goal.
We are soliciting contributions in the form of research and review articles covering a broad range of topics on ICF (IFE) physics and technology, including (but not limited to) the following:
- Advanced ICF concepts and architecture;
- Short wavelength, efficient and rep-rate laser drivers, i.e., diode-pumped solid-state, KrF (ArF), etc.;
- ICF target design and development;
- The mass production of cryogenic ICF targets;
- Diagnostic tools for laser–target interaction studies;
- Laser–plasma interaction, plasma instabilities, and extra-thermal electron generation;
- ICF target implosion hydrodynamics and turbulent mixing;
- Numerical modeling of the ICF laser–target interaction and related plasma phenomena;
- Material studies for ICF drivers and TN reactor chamber.
Dr. Vladimir D. Zvorykin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- inertial confinement fusion
- laser drivers
- targets design and mass production
- laser–target diagnostics, experiments and numerical modeling
- materials for drivers and reactor chamber
