Hi everybody! We're here at LLE where we're doing our ICF shot experiment. So, if you look
over here this is the LLE target chamber.
So what happens is you get a bunch of
lasers 60, right? Yeah, so sixty
lasers are all shot down these long
pipes and focused from those mirrors
down there and reflected into the
chamber. And so they're all focused down
onto this pellet and it's about a little
under a millimeter wide, and they all get
focused under this pellet and cause it
to compress. And it heats up, the
surface blasts off and compresses the
fuel inside even more and you start to
get fusion reactions and so that's kinda
what we're looking at here. If you look
down there you can actually see our, well
you can sort of see where our experiment
is set up, so what we're trying to do is
measure the byproducts of some of these
high yield reactions and try and
measure cross-section which is basically
how likely a reaction is to occur
