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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8696-2_3
Copy DOIPublication Date: Jan 1, 2002 |
A wide variety of diagnostics have been deployed to study direct-drive spherical implosions of gas-filled, plastic shells on the 60-beam OMEGA laser system at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Neutron detectors using plastic scintillators measure primary yield, ion temperature, secondary neutron yield, and burn history. Charged- particle detectors record, on CR-39 samples, the secondary protons in pure D2 implosions and elastically scattered protons, deuterons, and tritons in DT implosions to measure the shell and fuel areal densities. Primary D3He protons from plastic shells with a CD layer at the shell-gas interface and a 3He fill provide a significant signal only if the shell and fuel regions are mixed. Shells with an Ar-doped fill are used to infer the emissivity- averaged core electron temperatures and densities from the measured time-dependent Ar K-shell spectra. The level of nonuniformity in the shell areal density at stagnation is measured using gated x-ray images of Ti-doped shells.
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