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Design of multi neutron-to-gamma converter array for measuring time resolved ion temperature of inertial confinement
K D Meaney1, Y Kim1, N M Hoffman1
1Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
Abstract:
The ion temperature varying during inertial confinement fusion implosions changes the amount of Doppler broadening of the fusion products, creating subtle changes in the fusion neutron pulse as it moves away from the implosion. A diagnostic design to try to measure these subtle effects is introduced-leveraging the fast time resolution of gas Cherenkov detectors along with a multi-puck array that converts a small amount of the neutron pulse into gamma-rays, one can measure multiple snapshots of the neutron pulse at intermediate distances. Precise measurements of the propagating neutron pulse, specifically the variation in the peak location and the skew, could be used to infer time-evolved ion temperature evolved during peak compression.
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