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The competing effects of wave amplitude and collisions on multi-ion species suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in inertial confinement fusion Hohlraums

Berger, R. L.
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Arrighi, W.
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Chapman, T.
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April 1, 2023
Physics Of Plasmas

Reduction in stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) from National Ignition Facility Hohlraums has been predicted through the use of multi-ion species materials on Hohlraum walls. This approach to controlling SBS is based upon introducing a lighter ion species to the heavier ion species Hohlraum wall in order to greatly increase the ion Landau damping of ion acoustic waves (IAWs). In a collisionless plasma, if the IAWs driven by SBS reach sufficient amplitudes, this increased damping is reduced or even eliminated by ion trapping in the IAWs. Here, the nonlinear behavior of IAWs is simulated with a multi-ion species Vlasov code, including interspecies ion-ion collisions, self-collisions, and electron-ion pitch-angle collisions. The effect of collisions on the trapping of ions and electrons in a large-amplitude IAW is studied in a regime of relevance to current Inertial Confinement Fusion experiments. Our simulations show that collisions can scatter trapped particles out of resonance with the IAW, suppressing trapping and helping to maintain an effective Landau damping of the IAW. The IAW amplitude required to trap particles in the presence of strong collisions is estimated analytically. These estimates are tested for strongly damped IAWs in tantalum oxide and pure helium plasmas. Our simulations show that, above a threshold amplitude, the damping is reduced by an amount inversely proportional to the wave amplitude. Thus, the success of controlling SBS using a multispecies plasma may depend sensitively on laser power and pulse length.

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