Using HT and DT gamma rays to diagnose mix in Omega capsule implosions

Schmitt, M. J.; Herrmann, H. W.; Kim, Y. H.; McEvoy, A. M.; Zylstra, A.; Hammel, B. A.; Sepke, S. M.; Leatherland, A.; Gales, S.

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/717/1/012048

Title: Using HT and DT gamma rays to diagnose mix in Omega capsule implosions

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Experimental evidence [1] indicates that shell material can be driven into the core of Omega capsule implosions on the same time scale as the initial convergent shock. It has been hypothesized that shock-generated temperatures at the fuel/shell interface in thin exploding pusher capsules diffusively drives shell material into the gas core between the time of shock passage and bang time. Here, we propose a method to temporally resolve and observe the evolution of shell material into the capsule core as a function of fuel/shell interface temperature (which can be varied by varying the capsule shell thickness). Our proposed method uses a CD plastic capsule filled with 50/50 HT gas and diagnosed using gas Cherenkov detection (GCD) to temporally resolve both the HT "clean" and DT "mix" gamma ray burn histories. Simulations using Hydra [2] for an Omega CD-lined capsule with a sub-micron layer of the inside surface of the shell pre-mixed into a fraction of the gas region produce gamma reaction history profiles that are sensitive to the depth to which this material is mixed. Furthermore, we observe these differences as a function of capsule shell thickness is proposed to determine if interface mixing is consistent with thermal diffusion λ_ii~T²/Z²ρmore »« less

Authors:: Schmitt, M. J.; Herrmann, H. W.; Kim, Y. H.; McEvoy, A. M.; Zylstra, A.; Hammel, B. A.; Sepke, S. M.; Leatherland, A.; Gales, S.

Publication Date:: 2016-05-26

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

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1335611

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-15-28239
Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Physics. Conference Series

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 717; Journal ID: ISSN 1742-6588

Publisher:: IOP Publishing

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; gamma rays; mix; implosions

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                    Schmitt, M. J., Herrmann, H. W., Kim, Y. H., McEvoy, A. M., Zylstra, A., Hammel, B. A., Sepke, S. M., Leatherland, A., and Gales, S.. Using HT and DT gamma rays to diagnose mix in Omega capsule implosions.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Schmitt, M. J., Herrmann, H. W., Kim, Y. H., McEvoy, A. M., Zylstra, A., Hammel, B. A., Sepke, S. M., Leatherland, A., & Gales, S.. Using HT and DT gamma rays to diagnose mix in Omega capsule implosions.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/717/1/012048

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                    Schmitt, M. J., Herrmann, H. W., Kim, Y. H., McEvoy, A. M., Zylstra, A., Hammel, B. A., Sepke, S. M., Leatherland, A., and Gales, S.. Thu .  
"Using HT and DT gamma rays to diagnose mix in Omega capsule implosions".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/717/1/012048.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1335611.

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@article{osti_1335611,

  title        = {Using HT and DT gamma rays to diagnose mix in Omega capsule implosions},

  author       = {Schmitt, M. J. and Herrmann, H. W. and Kim, Y. H. and McEvoy, A. M. and Zylstra, A. and Hammel, B. A. and Sepke, S. M. and Leatherland, A. and Gales, S.},

  abstractNote = {Experimental evidence [1] indicates that shell material can be driven into the core of Omega capsule implosions on the same time scale as the initial convergent shock. It has been hypothesized that shock-generated temperatures at the fuel/shell interface in thin exploding pusher capsules diffusively drives shell material into the gas core between the time of shock passage and bang time. Here, we propose a method to temporally resolve and observe the evolution of shell material into the capsule core as a function of fuel/shell interface temperature (which can be varied by varying the capsule shell thickness). Our proposed method uses a CD plastic capsule filled with 50/50 HT gas and diagnosed using gas Cherenkov detection (GCD) to temporally resolve both the HT "clean" and DT "mix" gamma ray burn histories. Simulations using Hydra [2] for an Omega CD-lined capsule with a sub-micron layer of the inside surface of the shell pre-mixed into a fraction of the gas region produce gamma reaction history profiles that are sensitive to the depth to which this material is mixed. Furthermore, we observe these differences as a function of capsule shell thickness is proposed to determine if interface mixing is consistent with thermal diffusion λii~T2/Z2ρ at the gas/shell interface. Finally, since hydrodynamic mixing from shell perturbations, such as the mounting stalk and glue, could complicate these types of capsule-averaged temporal measurements, simulations including their effects also have been performed showing minimal perturbation of the hot spot geometry.},

  doi          = {10.1088/1742-6596/717/1/012048},

  journal      = {Journal of Physics. Conference Series},

  number       = ,

  volume       = 717,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2016},

  month        = {5}

}

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