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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Magnetic field in laser plasmas : non-local electron transport and reconnection / Champ magnétique dans les plasmas laser : transport électronique non-local et reconnexion

Riquier, Raphaël 28 January 2016 (has links)
Dans le cadre de la fusion par confinement inertiel, une capsule contenant le combustible de deutérium-tritium est implosée soit par irradiation laser (attaque directe, interaction laser – cible de numéro atomique faible), soit par un rayonnement de corps noir émis par une cavité convertissant le rayonnement laser (attaque indirecte, interaction laser – cible de numéro atomique élevé).Dans les deux cas, une modélisation correcte du transport électronique est cruciale pour avoir des simulations hydro-radiatives prédictives. Cependant, il a été montré très tôt que les hypothèses d'un mécanisme de transport linéaire ne sont pas applicables dans le cadre de l'irradiation d'une cible solide par un laser de puissance (I~10^14 W/cm²). Cela est dû d'une part à des gradients de température très importants (effets cinétiques dits « non-locaux ») ainsi qu'à la présence d'un champ magnétique auto-généré par effet thermo-électrique. Enfin, le flux de chaleur et le champ magnétique sont fortement couplés au travers de deux mécanismes : le transport du champ magnétique par le flux de chaleur (effet Nernst) et la rotation et inhibition du flux de chaleur par la magnétisation du plasma (effet Righi-Leduc).Dans le présent manuscrit, nous commencerons par exposer les différents modèles de transport électronique, et en particulier le modèle non-local avec champ magnétique, implémenté dans le code hydro-radiatif FCI2. Par la suite, nous chercherons à valider ce modèle par des comparaisons avec un code cinétique, puis avec une expérience lors de laquelle le champ magnétique a été mesuré par radiographie proton. Cela fait, nous utiliserons le code FCI2 pour expliquer la source et le transport du champ, ainsi que son effet sur l'interaction.Enfin, nous étudierons la reconnexion du champ magnétique, lors de l'irradiation d'une cible par deux faisceaux lasers. / In the framework of the inertial confinement fusion, a pellet filled with the deuterium-tritium fuel is imploded, either through laser irradiation (direct drive, laser – low atomic number target interaction) or by the black body radiation from a cavity converting the laser radiation (indirect drive, laser – high atomic number target interaction).In both cases, a correct modeling of the electron transport is of first importance in order to have predictive hydro-radiative simulations. Nonetheless, it has been shown early on that the hypothesis of the linear transport are not valid in the framework of a solid target irradiated by a high power laser (I~1014 W/cm²). This is due in part to very steep temperature gradients (kinetic effects, so-called « non-local ») and because of a magnetic field self-generated through the thermo-electric effect. Finally, the heat flux and the magnetic field are strongly coupled through two mecanisms: the advection of the field with the heat flux (Nernst effect) and the rotation and inhibition of the heat flux by the plasma's magnetization (Righi-Leduc effect).In this manuscript, we will first present the various electron transport models, particularly the non-local with magnetic field model included in the hydro-radiative code FCI2. Following, in order to validate this model, we will compare it first against a kinetic code, and then with an experiment during which the magnetic field has been probed through proton radiography. Once the model validated, we will use FCI2 simulations to explain the source and transport of the field, as well as its effect on the interaction.Finally, the reconnection of the magnetic field, during the irradiation of a solid target by two laser beams, will be studied.
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Feasibility of Nuclear Plasma Interaction studies with the Activation Technique

Nogwanya, Thembalethu January 2018 (has links)
>Magister Scientiae - MSc / Electron-mediated nuclear plasma interactions (NPIs), such as Nuclear Excitation by Electron Capture (NEEC) or Transition (NEET), can have a signi cant impact on nuclear cross sections in High Energy Density Plasmas (HEDPs). HEDP environments are found in nuclear weapons tests, National Ignition Facility (NIF) shots and in the cosmos where nucleosynthesis takes place. This thesis explores the impact of NPIs on highly excited nuclei. This impact is understood to be more intense in highly-excited nuclei states in the quasi-contiuum which is populated by nuclear reactions prior to their decay by spontaneous -ray emission. Attempts thus far have failed in measuring the NEEC process [1, 2], while NEET process has been observed experimentally [3, 4]. Direct observation of NPIs is hindered by the lack of a clear signature of their effect in HEDP environments. Hence this should test a new signature [5] for NPIs for highly-excited nuclei by investigating isomeric to ground state feeding from the isomeric state. An experiment was performed using the reactions 197Au(13C, 12C)198Au and 197Au(13C, 12C2n)196Au at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in inverse kinematics with an 197Au beam of 8.5 MeV/u energy. Several measurements were performed with different target configurations. The activated foils were counted at the low-background counting facility of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. From these data, the double isomeric to ground state ratio (DIGS) were extracted with the assistance of the decay equations that were included in the experiment. As the NPIs effects are rather small the lines for analysis had to be chosen carefully so that the extracted ratios would not contain significant errors. The measured DIGS ratios were then compared with the result of the theoretical DIGS ratios. The results showed that the calculated DIGS ratios deviated substantially from unity although this was with large uncertainties. Because of the large errors obtained, the DIGS ratios were found to be inconclusive as a signature for detecting the effects of NPIs such as angular momentum distribution changes in HEDP environmen

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