Argon X-ray line imaging - A compression diagnostic for inertial confinement fusion targets
The paper describes argon X-ray line imaging which measures the compressed fuel volume directly by forming one-dimensional images of X-rays from argon gas seeded into the D-T fuel. The photon energies of the X-rays are recorded on the film of a diffraction-crystal spectrograph. Neutron activation, which detects activated nuclei produced by the interaction of 14-MeV neutrons with the selected materials of the target, allows to calculate the final compressed fuel density using a hydrodynamics simulation code and the knowledge of the total number of activated nuclei and the neutron yield. Argon X-ray appears to be a valid fuel-compression diagnostic for final fuel densities in the range of 10 to 50 times liquid D-T density.
- Research Organization:
- California, University, Livermore, Calif.
- OSTI ID:
- 5258824
- Journal Information:
- Energy Technol. Rev.; (United States), Journal Name: Energy Technol. Rev.; (United States)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
ACTIVATION ANALYSIS
ARGON
COMPRESSION
DEUTERIUM
HYDROGEN FUELS
ION TEMPERATURE
LASER TARGETS
NEUTRON REACTIONS
PLASMA DENSITY
PULSES
SHIVA FACILITY
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
X RADIATION
BARYON REACTIONS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTS
FLUIDS
FUELS
GASES
HADRON REACTIONS
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
IONIZING RADIATIONS
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
NONMETALS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
NUCLEON REACTIONS
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
RADIATIONS
RARE GASES
STABLE ISOTOPES
SYNTHETIC FUELS
TARGETS
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