Observations of multiple nuclear reaction histories and fuel-ion species dynamics in shock-driven inertial confinement fusion implosions
Fuel-ion species dynamics in hydrodynamiclike shock-driven DT3He-filled inertial confinement fusion
implosion is quantitatively assessed for the first time using simultaneously measured D3He and DT reaction
histories. These reaction histories are measured with the particle x-ray temporal diagnostic, which captures
the relative timing between different nuclear burns with unprecedented precision (∼10 ps). The observed
50 +- 10 ps earlier D3He reaction history timing (relative to DT) cannot be explained by average-ion