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Experimental Validation of Dense Plasma Transport Models using the Z-Machine

Knapp, Patrick K.; Beckwith, Kristian B.; Cochrane, Kyle C.; Clay III, Raymond C.; Mattsson, Thomas M.

Mixing of cold, higher-Z elements into the fuel region of an inertial confinement fusion target spoils the fusion burn efficiency. This mixing process is driven by both "turbulent" and "atomic" mixing processes, the latter being modeled through transport corrections to the basic hydrodynamic models. Recently, there has been a surge in the development of dense plasma transport modeling and the associated transport coefficients; however, experimental validation remains in its infancy.