Magnetization of inertial confinement implosions is a promising means of improving their performance, owing
to the potential reduction of energy losses within the target and mitigation of hydrodynamic instabilities.
In particular, cylindrical implosions are useful for studying the influence of a magnetic field thanks to their
axial symmetry. Here we present experimental results from cylindrical implosions on the OMEGA-60 laser
using a 40-beam, 14.5 kJ, 1.5 ns drive and an initial seed magnetic field of B0 = 24 T along the axis of the
targets, compared with reference results without an imposed B-field. Implosions were characterized using
time-resolved X-ray imaging from two orthogonal lines of sight. We found that the data agree well with
magnetohydrodynamic simulations once radiation transport within the imploding plasma is considered. We
show that for a correct interpretation of the data in this type of experiments, explicit radiation transport
must be taken into account.
