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Laser Thermonuclear Fusion and High Energy Density Physics

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The state-of-the-art research in the field of laser thermonuclear fusion, aimed at initiating controlled inertial confinement fusion, and the progress in high energy density physics achieved both directly in studies on laser fusion and in adjacent fields related to the high-power laser matter interaction are discussed.

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  1. According to the US Department of Energy on December 5, 2022, in an experiment at the NIF facility, ignition was obtained when the released fusion energy was one and a half times higher than the laser energy deposited in the target.

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The author is grateful to G.A. Vergunova, N.N. Demchenko, I.Ya. Doskoch, F.A. Korneev, P.A. Kuchugov, and R.A. Yakhnin for useful discussion.

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Gus’kov, S.Y. Laser Thermonuclear Fusion and High Energy Density Physics. Bull. Lebedev Phys. Inst. 50 (Suppl 4), S395–S404 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068335623160042

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