Requirements and sensitivity analysis for temporally- and spatially-resolved thermometry using neutron resonance spectroscopy

Fernández, Juan Carlos; Barnes, Cris William; Mocko, Michael Jeffrey; Zavorka, Lukas

doi:10.1063/1.5031038

Title: Requirements and sensitivity analysis for temporally- and spatially-resolved thermometry using neutron resonance spectroscopy

Journal Article · Wed Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5031038· OSTI ID:1571591

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Neutron resonance spectroscopy (NRS) has been used extensively to make temperature measurements that are accurate, absolute, and nonperturbative within the interior of material samples under extreme conditions applied quasistatically. Yet NRS has seldom been used in dynamic experiments. There is a compelling incentive to do so because of the significant shortcomings of alternative techniques. An important barrier to adopting dynamic NRS thermometry is the difficulty in fielding it with conventional spallation neutron sources. To enable time-dependent and spatially resolved temperature measurements in dynamic environments, more compact neutron sources that can be used at user facilities in conjunction with other diagnostic probes (such as x-ray light sources) are required. Such sources may be available using ultrafast high-intensity optical lasers. We evaluate such possibilities by determining the sensitivities of the temperature estimate on neutron-beam and diagnostic parameters. Based on that evaluation, requirements are set on a pulsed neutron-source and diagnostics to make a meaningful dynamic temperature measurement. Dynamic thermometry measurements are examined in this context when driven by two alternative fast-neutron sources: the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center (LANSCE) proton accelerator driving isotropic spallation neutrons as a baseline and a laser-plasma ion accelerator driving a neutron beam from deuterium breakup. Strategies to close the gap between the required and demonstrated performance of laser-based fast-neutron sources are presented. A short-pulse high-intensity laser with state-of-the-art pulse contrast and an energy of a few hundred Joules would drive a compact neutron source suitable for NRS thermometry that could transform the dynamic study of materials.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Programs (DP)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 1571591

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1562563

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-21191; TRN: US2100285

Journal Information:: Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 90, Issue 9; ISSN 0034-6748

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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