46th International Workshop on High Energy Density Physics with Intense Ion and Laser Beams

The purpose of the presentation is to introduce Marvel Fusion’s high-gain fusion target philosophy. The company’s high-gain target concept incorporates a novel fast-ignition element capable of delivering up to multiple megajoules of fast-ignition energy into dense fuel. In addition, the concept includes a mild compression element that can be validated at existing implosion facilities....

Here, we discuss the hotspot ignition condition for scenarios relevant for applications in the field of inertial fusion energy. Different tradeoffs of compression and hotspot energy are considered. Special attention is paid to the necessary modifications of the condition for a novel class of fusion fuels, so-called "non-cryogenic DTs". These fuels, recently proposed by Ruhl et al. (2025),...

Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) remains a promising pathway for high-gain energy production, yet achieving ignition conditions requires precise control over fuel compression and thermal transport. A promising avenue to relax these stringent requirements is the application of strong external magnetic fields. In this work, we investigate the viability of magnetically assisted heating, where...

We report on further simulations for an experiment studying hot-electron transport in a magnetized planar target conducted on the OMEGA-EP laser system [1]. The magnetic field strength was set at 20 Tesla, which is sufficient to divert hot electrons and hinder their propagation toward a copper fluor layer. By analysing the heating of that layer by hot electrons both with and without the...