{"id":99257,"date":"2019-12-02T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/when-laser-beams-meet-plasma-new-data-addresses-gap-in-fusion-research"},"modified":"2019-12-02T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T23:22:31","slug":"when-laser-beams-meet-plasma-new-data-addresses-gap-in-fusion-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/when-laser-beams-meet-plasma-new-data-addresses-gap-in-fusion-research","title":{"rendered":"When laser beams meet plasma: New data addresses gap in fusion research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-laser-beams-meet-plasma-new-data-addresses-gap-in-fusion-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of Rochester will enhance the accuracy of computer models used in simulations of laser-driven implosions. The research, published in the journal <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, addresses one of the challenges in scientists\u2019 longstanding quest to achieve fusion.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser<\/a>-driven <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/inertial+confinement+fusion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">inertial confinement fusion<\/a> (ICF) experiments, such as the experiments conducted at the University of Rochester\u2019s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), short beams consisting of intense pulses of light\u2014pulses lasting mere billionths of a second\u2014deliver energy to heat and compress a target of hydrogen fuel cells. Ideally, this process would release more energy than was used to heat the system.<\/p>\n<p>Laser-driven ICF experiments require that many laser beams propagate through a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/plasma\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plasma<\/a>\u2014a hot soup of free moving electrons and ions\u2014to deposit their radiation energy precisely at their intended target. But, as the beams do so, they interact with the plasma in ways that can complicate the intended result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of Rochester will enhance the accuracy of computer models used in simulations of laser-driven implosions. The research, published in the journal Nature Physics, addresses one of the challenges in scientists\u2019 longstanding quest to achieve fusion. In laser-driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments, such as the experiments conducted at the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}