Title :
Nuclear diagnostic commissioning for the national ignition campaign
Author :
Le Pape, S. ; Mackinnon, A. ; Mckenty, P. ; Craxton, S. ; Janezic, S. ; Nikroo, A. ; Hoppe, M. ; Moody, J. ; Caggianno, J. ; Glebov, V. ; Frenje, J. ; Herrmann, H. ; Mcnanney, J. ; Grimm, G. ; Leeper, R. ; Bleuel, D. ; Friedrich, S. ; Knauer, J. ; Petrass
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Livermore, CA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Nuclear diagnostics aiming at measuring neutron yield, ion temperature, neutron bang time and down scattered ratio are a main component of the National Ignition Campaign. Therefore in order to commission these diagnostic, polar direct drive experiments on exploding pusher target have been taking place on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to produce neutron yield up to about 2e14 neutron. Results of the exploding pusher performance on the NIF as well as progress on the neutron diagnostic commissioning will be presented in this talk.
Keywords :
explosions; fusion reactor instrumentation; laser fusion; plasma diagnostics; plasma temperature; plasma transport processes; NIF; National Ignition Campaign; National Ignition Facility; downscattered ratio measurement; exploding pusher target; ion temperature measurement; neutron bang time measurement; neutron yield measurement; nuclear diagnostic commissioning; polar direct drive experiments;
Conference_Titel :
Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-330-8
Electronic_ISBN :
0730-9244
DOI :
10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5992947
