Measurement of the B10(α,n0)13N cross section for 2.2<Eα<4.9MeV and its application as a diagnostic at the National Ignition Facility

Liu, Qian; Febbraro, Michael T.; deBoer, R J.; Boeltzig, Axel; Chen, Y.; Cerjan, C.; Couder, Manoel; Frentz, Brent; Gorres, Jochim; Henry, E. A.; Lamere, Ed; Macon, Kevin T.; Manukyan, Khachatur V.; Morales, Luis; O'Malley, P. D.; Pain, Steven D.; Peters, William A.; Schneider, D.; Seymour, Christopher; Seymour, Gwen; Temanson, Eli S.; Toomey, Rebecca; Kolk, B. Vande; Weaver, Jamie; Wiescher, Michael

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034601

Title: Measurement of the ${}^{10}B (α, n_{0})^{13} N$ cross section for $2.2 < E_{α} < 4.9 MeV$ and its application as a diagnostic at the National Ignition Facility

Journal Article · 03 September 2019 · Physical Review C

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034601 · OSTI ID:1561661

Liu, Qian ^[1];

^[2]; deBoer, R J. ^[1]; Boeltzig, Axel ^[1]; Chen, Y. ^[1]; Cerjan, C. ^[3]; Couder, Manoel ^[1]; Frentz, Brent ^[1]; Gorres, Jochim ^[1]; Henry, E. A. ^[3]; Lamere, Ed ^[1]; Macon, Kevin T. ^[4]; Manukyan, Khachatur V. ^[1]; Morales, Luis ^[1]; O'Malley, P. D. ^[1];

^[2]; Peters, William A. ^[2]; Schneider, D. ^[3]; Seymour, Christopher ^[1]; Seymour, Gwen ^[1] more »

Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States); Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (United States)
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)

We present that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) provides the opportunity to study nuclear reactions under controlled conditions at high temperatures and pressures at a level never before achieved. However, the timescale of the deuterium-tritium (DT) implosion is only a few nanoseconds, making data collection and diagnostics very challenging. One method that has been proposed for obtaining additional information about the conditions of the implosion is to activate a dopant material using the α particles produced from the DT fuel as a diagnostic. The yield of the activated material can give a measure of the mixing that occurs in the capsule. One of the reactions that has been proposed is ¹⁰B(α,n)¹³N as it produces a radioactive reactant product with a convenient half-life of ≈10 min. Although this reaction has several advantages for the application at hand, it has not seen much study in the present literature, resulting in large uncertainties in the cross section. Furthermore, for the current application, the cross section must be well characterized. With this motivation, the ¹⁰B(α,n)¹³N cross section has been remeasured for 2.2 < E_α < 4.9MeV with the angle-integrated ground-state cross section reported for the first time. Lastly, the present results, combined with previous measurements, allow for a determination of the cross section to a significantly higher degree of accuracy and precision than obtained previously and are shown to be consistent with thick-target measurements. Preliminary calculations are performed to test the feasibility of this reaction as a diagnostic for a NIF implosion.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; AC52-07NA27344; NA0002132

OSTI ID:: 1561661

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1560314

Journal Information:: Physical Review C, Vol. 100, Issue 3; ISSN 2469-9985

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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