Temporal narrowing of neutrons produced by high-intensity short-pulse lasers

Higginson, D. P.; Vassura, L.; Gugiu, M. M.; Antici, P.; Borghesi, M.; Brauckmann, S.; Diouf, C.; Green, A.; Palumbo, L.; Petrascu, H.; Sofia, S.; Stardubtsev, M.; Willi, O.; Kar, S.; Negoita, F.; Fuchs, J.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.054802

Title: Temporal narrowing of neutrons produced by high-intensity short-pulse lasers

Journal Article · Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.054802· OSTI ID:1345339

Higginson, D. P. ^[1]; Vassura, L. ^[2]; Gugiu, M. M. ^[3]; Antici, P. ^[4]; Borghesi, M. ^[5]; Brauckmann, S. ^[6]; Diouf, C. ^[7]; Green, A. ^[8]; Palumbo, L. ^[9]; Petrascu, H. ^[3]; Sofia, S. ^[7]; Stardubtsev, M. ^[10]; Willi, O. ^[6]; Kar, S. ^[8]; Negoita, F. ^[3]; Fuchs, J. ^[11]

UMR 7605 CNRS-CEA-Ecole Polytechnique-Univ. Paris VI, Palaiseau (France); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
UMR 7605 CNRS-CEA-Ecole Polytechnique-Univ. Paris VI, Palaiseau (France); Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma (Italy)
IFIN-HH (Romania)
Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma (Italy); INRS-EMT, Varennes, QC (Canada); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati (Italy)
The Queen's Univ. of Belfast, Belfast (United Kingdom); Institute of Physics of the ASCR, Prague (Czech Republic)
Heinrich Heine Univ. Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf (Germany)
UMR 7605 CNRS-CEA-Ecole Polytechnique-Univ. Paris VI, Palaiseau (France)
The Queen's Univ. of Belfast, Belfast (United Kingdom)
Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma (Italy)
Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod (Russia)
UMR 7605 CNRS-CEA-Ecole Polytechnique-Univ. Paris VI, Palaiseau (France); Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod (Russia)

The production of neutron beams having short temporal duration is studied using ultraintense laser pulses. Laser-accelerated protons are spectrally filtered using a laser-triggered microlens to produce a short duration neutron pulse via nuclear reactions induced in a converter material (LiF). This produces a ~3 ns duration neutron pulse with 10⁴ n/MeV/sr/shot at 0.56 m from the laser-irradiated proton source. The large spatial separation between the neutron production and the proton source allows for shielding from the copious and undesirable radiation resulting from the laser-plasma interaction. Finally, this neutron pulse compares favorably to the duration of conventional accelerator sources and should scale up with, present and future, higher energy laser facilities to produce brighter and shorter neutron beams for ultrafast probing of dense materials.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344; E1127

OSTI ID:: 1345339

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1203808

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-674350; PRLTAO

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 5; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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