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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-11-1
pubmed:abstractText
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) successfully completed its first inertial confinement fusion (ICF) campaign in 2009. A neutron time-of-flight (nTOF) system was part of the nuclear diagnostics used in this campaign. The nTOF technique has been used for decades on ICF facilities to infer the ion temperature of hot deuterium (D(2)) and deuterium-tritium (DT) plasmas based on the temporal Doppler broadening of the primary neutron peak. Once calibrated for absolute neutron sensitivity, the nTOF detectors can be used to measure the yield with high accuracy. The NIF nTOF system is designed to measure neutron yield and ion temperature over 11 orders of magnitude (from 10(8) to 10(19)), neutron bang time in DT implosions between 10(12) and 10(16), and to infer areal density for DT yields above 10(12). During the 2009 campaign, the three most sensitive neutron time-of-flight detectors were installed and used to measure the primary neutron yield and ion temperature from 25 high-convergence implosions using D(2) fuel. The OMEGA yield calibration of these detectors was successfully transferred to the NIF.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1089-7623
pubmed:author
pubmed-author:BourgadeJ-LJL, pubmed-author:BuczekTT, pubmed-author:ChandlerG AGA, pubmed-author:ClancyTT, pubmed-author:CruzMM, pubmed-author:DisdierLL, pubmed-author:DuffyTT, pubmed-author:EckartM JMJ, pubmed-author:FoxMM, pubmed-author:GlebovV YuVY, pubmed-author:HaslamJ JJJ, pubmed-author:HorsfieldC JCJ, pubmed-author:KilkennyJ DJD, pubmed-author:KnauerJ PJP, pubmed-author:LandoasOO, pubmed-author:LeeperR JRJ, pubmed-author:LercheR ARA, pubmed-author:MarshallK LKL, pubmed-author:McNaneyJJ, pubmed-author:MoranM JMJ, pubmed-author:MunroDD, pubmed-author:PruyneAA, pubmed-author:RomanofskyMM, pubmed-author:SangsterT CTC, pubmed-author:SchneiderDD, pubmed-author:ShengH FHF, pubmed-author:StoecklCC, pubmed-author:StoefflWW, pubmed-author:TheobaldWW, pubmed-author:WarwasDD, pubmed-author:YeomanMM, pubmed-author:ZachariasRR
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
81
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
10D325
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
The National Ignition Facility neutron time-of-flight system and its initial performance (invited).
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 250 East River Road, Rochester, New York 14623, USA. vgle@lle.rochester.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article