Simulation of ionic populations in hot dense plasmas via a new method beyond the average atom model

In theoretical simulations and analysis of diagnostic measurements for hot dense plasmas in the inertial confinement fusion researches, it is usually necessary to consider thousands of transition arrays between a huge number of ionic energy states. Average atom models are adopted for practical purposes. In order to calculate ionic populations of hot dense plasmas more accurately either n local thermodynamic equilibrium or in non-local thermodynamic equilibrium conditions, a simple method beyond the AA model is proposed. (author)