The Calibration of the DD Neutron Indium Activation Diagnostic

Zha, Song; Chen, Jiabin; Liu, Zhongjie; Zhan, Xun; Tang, Qi

doi:10.1088/1009-0630/17/4/14

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“…However, our preliminary design analysis showed that neutron yield is not high enough to produce acceptable signal-to-noise ratio on our current laser facilities. The neutron yield was measured by a scintillator detector and Indium activation diagnostic [27,28]. The ion temperature was measured by a nToF detector with an accuracy of 15% [29].…”

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Demonstration of indirectly driven implosion experiments with cryogenic pure deuterium layered capsules on the Shenguang Laser Facility

Wang

et al. 2023

Nucl. Fusion

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To achieve ignition in a laboratory via inertial confinement fusion, a spherical capsule containing a frozen layer of deuterium and tritium (DT) fuel will be imploded on an MJ-class laser facility. However, if pure deuterium fuel can be used in place of DT fuel for tuning shots, we may speed up the process of ignition experiments while maintaining the surrogacy by significantly reducing the level of radioactivity. Unfortunately, it has long been assumed that neither the approach of symmetrical infrared irradiation used in the Omega direct-drive experiments nor the method of beta-layering used in the NIF experiments can be used to smooth the D layered capsule in cylindrical hohlraums. The difficulty in smoothing the D ice layer prevents us from taking advantage of cryogenic D-layered capsules in indirect-drive experiments. In this work, we established a procedure to form a uniform D-ice layer for capsules held in cylindrical hohlraums and carried out indirect-drive cryogenic D-layered implosion experiments using a squared laser pulse on the Shenguang laser facility in China. The quality of the D ice layer is characterized by phase-contrast imaging. The root-mean-square of the power spectrum in modes 2-100 is about 2.2μm. The implosion performance of the D-layered capsules is close to the prediction of one-dimensional simulations. The measured neutron yield and areal fuel density are 1.2×1011 and 80mg/cm2, respectively.

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Demonstration of indirectly driven implosion experiments with cryogenic pure deuterium layered capsules on the Shenguang Laser Facility

Wang

et al. 2023

Nucl. Fusion

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“…Indium has been used routinely in the past at both OMEGA-60 and the NIF. Today it is used for dd-neutron yield measurements at the Z-facility [100] and Shenguang-II facility [106,107].…”

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Nuclear diagnostics for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) plasmas

Frenje

2020

Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion

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The field of nuclear diagnostics for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) is broadly reviewed from its beginning in the seventies to present day. During this time, the sophistication of the ICF facilities and the suite of nuclear diagnostics have substantially evolved, generally a consequence of the efforts and experience gained on previous facilities. As the fusion yields have increased several orders of magnitude during these years, the quality of the nuclear-fusion-product measurements has improved significantly, facilitating an increased level of understanding about the physics governing the nuclear phase of an ICF implosion. The field of ICF has now entered an era where the fusion yields are high enough for nuclear measurements to provide spatial, temporal and spectral information, which have proven indispensable to understanding the performance of an ICF implosion. At the same time, the requirements on the nuclear diagnostics have also become more stringent. To put these measurements into context, this review starts by providing some historical remarks about the field of ICF and the role of nuclear diagnostics, followed by a brief overview of the basic physics that characterize the nuclear phase and performance of an ICF implosion. A technical discussion is subsequently presented of the neutron, gamma-ray, charged-particle and radiochemistry diagnostics that are, or have been, routinely used in the field of ICF. This discussion is followed by an elaboration of the current view of the next-generation nuclear diagnostics. Since the seventies, the overall progress made in the areas of nuclear diagnostics and scientific understanding of an ICF implosion has been enormous, and with the implementation of new high-fusion-yield facilities world-wide, the nextgeneration nuclear diagnostics will play an even more important role for decades to come.

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