Figure 4
Comparison of density, ρ, and ion temperature, Ti, maps of imploded DT target for four different stopping frameworks. (a) LP, (b) EPT (case II), (c) conventional EPT, and (d) BPS. The comparisons have been carried out for two different time values. (i) just after the end of the injected aluminum beam (0.023 ns), and (ii) when the burn wave is propagating in plasma volume (0.05 ns). To further analyses, the time evolutions of the cumulative hot-spot energies are also illustrated for different stopping formalisms (see (iii)). The energy curves show PdV work (red line), radiation loss (green line), and α-deposited energy (blue line). The brown elliptic curve expresses the initial position of the dense DT core.
