Measurement of the cross section for and its application as a diagnostic at the National Ignition Facility
Abstract
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 < Eα < 4.9MeV with the angle-integrated ground-state cross section reported for the first time. Lastly, the present results, combined with previousmore »
- Authors:
-
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)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1561661
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1560314
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; AC52-07NA27344; NA0002132
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review C
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 100; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9985
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
Citation Formats
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, and Wiescher, Michael. 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. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034601.
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. 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. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034601
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, and Wiescher, Michael. Tue .
"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". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034601. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1561661.
@article{osti_1561661,
title = {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},
author = {Liu, Qian and Febbraro, Michael T. and deBoer, R J. and Boeltzig, Axel and Chen, Y. and Cerjan, C. and Couder, Manoel and Frentz, Brent and Gorres, Jochim and Henry, E. A. and Lamere, Ed and Macon, Kevin T. and Manukyan, Khachatur V. and Morales, Luis and O'Malley, P. D. and Pain, Steven D. and Peters, William A. and Schneider, D. and Seymour, Christopher and Seymour, Gwen and Temanson, Eli S. and Toomey, Rebecca and Kolk, B. Vande and Weaver, Jamie and Wiescher, Michael},
abstractNote = {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 < Eα < 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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.100.034601},
journal = {Physical Review C},
number = 3,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {9}
}
Web of Science
Works referenced in this record:
Thick-target measurements and astrophysical thermonuclear reaction rates: Proton-induced reactions
journal, February 1979
- Roughton, N. A.; Fritts, M. R.; Peterson, R. J.
- Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, Vol. 23, Issue 2
Born random phase approximation for ion stopping in an arbitrarily degenerate electron fluid
journal, January 1985
- Maynard, G.; Deutsch, C.
- Journal de Physique, Vol. 46, Issue 7
High-Energy-Density Physics at the National Ignition Facility
journal, October 2017
- Hurricane, O. A.; Herrmann, M. C.
- Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Vol. 67, Issue 1
Neutron Depth Profiling with the New NIST Cold Neutron Source
journal, March 1997
- Lamaze, G. P.; Chen-Mayer, H.; Langland, J. K.
- Surface and Interface Analysis, Vol. 25, Issue 3
Total Neutron Yields from Light Elements under Proton and Alpha Bombardment
journal, April 1959
- Gibbons, J. H.; Macklin, R. L.
- Physical Review, Vol. 114, Issue 2
The AME2016 atomic mass evaluation (II). Tables, graphs and references
journal, March 2017
- Wang, Meng; Audi, G.; Kondev, F. G.
- Chinese Physics C, Vol. 41, Issue 3
The AME2016 atomic mass evaluation (I). Evaluation of input data; and adjustment procedures
journal, March 2017
- Huang, W. J.; Audi, G.; Wang, Meng
- Chinese Physics C, Vol. 41, Issue 3
Comparison of spectrum-unfolding performance of (EJ315) and (EJ309) liquid scintillators on measured 252Cf pulse-height spectra
journal, November 2013
- Lawrence, Chris C.; Enqvist, Andreas; Flaska, Marek
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 729
Bakerian Lecture. The Neutron
journal, October 1933
- Chadwick, J.
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 142, Issue 846
The 10B(α, n) 13N13N∗ cross section for α-energies from 1.0 TO 5 MeV
journal, November 1973
- Van Der Zwan, L.; Geiger, K. W.
- Nuclear Physics A, Vol. 216, Issue 1
Algorithms for the analysis of -decay total absorption spectra
journal, February 2007
- Tain, J. L.; Cano-Ott, D.
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 571, Issue 3
Deuterated scintillators and their application to neutron spectroscopy
journal, June 2015
- Febbraro, M.; Lawrence, C. C.; Zhu, H.
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 784
Charged-particle stopping powers in inertial confinement fusion plasmas
journal, May 1993
- Li, Chi-Kang; Petrasso, Richard D.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 70, Issue 20
Neutron depth profiling: Overview and description of NIST facilities
journal, January 1993
- Downing, R. G.; Lamaze, G. P.; Langland, J. K.
- Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Vol. 98, Issue 1
Energy levels of light nuclei A = 13–15
journal, February 1991
- Ajzenberg-Selove, F.
- Nuclear Physics A, Vol. 523, Issue 1
Neutron Yields from Alpha-Particle Bombardment
journal, July 1979
- Bair, J. K.; Campo, J. Gomez del
- Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol. 71, Issue 1
Erratum: Charged-Particle Stopping Powers in Inertial Confinement Fusion Plasmas [Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 , 3059 (1993)]
journal, May 2015
- Li, Chi-Kang; Petrasso, Richard D.
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 114, Issue 19
Study of the Be(p,n) and Be(d,n) Source Reactions
journal, August 2002
- Massey, Thomas N.; Jacobs, Devon K.; Al-Quraishi, Saleh I.
- Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, Vol. 39, Issue sup2
Deuterated-xylene (xylene-d10; EJ301D): A new, improved deuterated liquid scintillator for neutron energy measurements without time-of-flight
journal, June 2016
- Becchetti, F. D.; Raymond, R. S.; Torres-Isea, R. O.
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 820
SRIM – The stopping and range of ions in matter (2010)
journal, June 2010
- Ziegler, James F.; Ziegler, M. D.; Biersack, J. P.
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 268, Issue 11-12
MCNP-PoliMi: a Monte-Carlo code for correlation measurements
journal, November 2003
- Pozzi, Sara A.; Padovani, Enrico; Marseguerra, Marzio
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 513, Issue 3
The National Ignition Facility: Ushering in a new age for high energy density science
journal, April 2009
- Moses, E. I.; Boyd, R. N.; Remington, B. A.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 16, Issue 4
The Radiochemical Analysis of Gaseous Samples (RAGS) apparatus for nuclear diagnostics at the National Ignition Facility (invited)
journal, October 2012
- Shaughnessy, D. A.; Velsko, C. A.; Jedlovec, D. R.
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 83, Issue 10
Thick-target measurements and astrophysical thermonuclear reaction rates: Alpha-induced reactions
journal, March 1983
- Roughton, N. A.; Intrator, T. P.; Peterson, R. J.
- Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables, Vol. 28, Issue 2
Dynamic high energy density plasma environments at the National Ignition Facility for nuclear science research
journal, February 2018
- Cerjan, Ch J.; Bernstein, L.; Hopkins, L. Berzak
- Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 45, Issue 3
Neutrons and Gamma Rays from the Alpha-Particle Bombardment of , , , , and
journal, June 1956
- Bonner, T. W.; Kraus, Alfred A.; Marion, J. B.
- Physical Review, Vol. 102, Issue 5
The total cross sections of the 11B(α,n)14N and the 10B(α,n)13N reactions between 2 and 6 MeV
journal, June 2017
- Prior, R. M.; Spraker, M. C.; France, R. H.
- Nuclear Science and Techniques, Vol. 28, Issue 8
A comparison of three-dimensional multimode hydrodynamic instability growth on various National Ignition Facility capsule designs with HYDRA simulations
journal, April 1998
- Marinak, M. M.; Haan, S. W.; Dittrich, T. R.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 5, Issue 4
Three-dimensional HYDRA simulations of National Ignition Facility targets
journal, May 2001
- Marinak, M. M.; Kerbel, G. D.; Gentile, N. A.
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 8, Issue 5
Energy levels of light nuclei A = 13−15
journal, February 1986
- Ajzenberg-Selove, F.
- Nuclear Physics A, Vol. 449, Issue 1
Energy levels of light nuclei A = 13–15
journal, May 1981
- Ajenberg-Selove, F.
- Nuclear Physics A, Vol. 360, Issue 1
Energy levels of light nuclei A = 13–15
journal, August 1970
- Ajzenberg-Selove, F.
- Nuclear Physics A, Vol. 152, Issue 1