Research frontier of heavy-ion-beam-driven inertial confinement fusion at HIAF

The rapid development of a heavy-ion accelerator technology avails a new approach of producing high-energy-density (HED) matter in the laboratory, and an beneficial experimental platform for the inertial-confinement-fusion (ICF) that is driven by ion beams. The Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is responsible for the construction of the recently developed heavy ion accelerator facility (HIAF) in the 12th five-year plan period. The layout and building plan of the accelerator comlex regardinging HED and ICF inclusds the shooting of single-ion beams in phase-1, the shooting of double-ion beams in the optimization of phase-1 and the shooting of multi-ion beams in the phase-upgrade. A brief introduction of the state of matter driven by different beams-shooting methods and the new diagnostic development by IMP are presented. This paper will provide essential references of the experimental route and technical support for the research on ICF in China.