Omega Volume VII-System Description, Operation Manual

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Chapter 1: System Overview
Revision A (January 2006)
1.0 Introduction ................................................................................................. 1
1.1 Scientific Mission ...................................................................................... 1
1.1.1 High-Power, High-Energy, and Proton-Beam Radiography .......... 3
1.1.2 HED Backlighting Experiments .................................................... 4
1.1.2.1 Cryogenic Implosion Fuel Conditions ............................. 4
1.1.2.2 High-Temperature Opacity Measurements ...................... 5
1.1.3 Fast Ignition ................................................................................... 5
1.1.3.1 Background ..................................................................... 5
1.1.3.2 OMEGA EP Fast-Ignition Program ............................... 6
1.1.3.2.1 Intensity Scaling of Hot-Electron Energy ...................... 6
1.1.3.2.2 Electron-Beam Transport ................................................ 6
1.1.4 SSP-Related High-Energy-Density Physics................................... 6
1.1.4.1 Equation of State Measurements of Materials ................ 7
1.1.4.2 Isentropic Compression .................................................. 8
1.1.4.3 Isochoric Heating Experiments ...................................... 8
1.1.4.4 Hydrodynamic Instability Experiments .......................... 8
1.1.4.5 Indirect-Drive Experiments ............................................ 9
1.2 System Configuration .............................................................................
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1.3 System Performance Specifications ...................................................... 12
1.3.1 Short-Pulse Performance ............................................................... 12
1.3.2 Long-Pulse Performance ................................................................ 13
OMEGA EP
System Operations Manual
Volume VII–System Description
Chapter 1: System Overview