神光II装置辐射驱动内爆对称性的研究

 对神光II条件下辐射驱动内爆的不对称性进行了二维数值模拟。模拟结果表明，靶妨内爆的不对称性对辐射温度的不均匀性非常敏感，DT平均压缩度则对其不敏感。同时，内爆不对称性对中子产额和内爆效率有一定的影响。辐射驱动内爆的不对称性可以利用辐射温度源的时间调制得到明显的改善。     

Monte Carlo sampling for gamma and beta detectors using a general purpose PC program

The main objective of this study is the computation of several parameters involved in gamma and beta environmental radiation measurements, such as detection efficiency, the attenuation coefficients, mass energy-transfer coefficients and mass energy-absorption coefficients for several materials. In order to accomplish these tasks we developed a PC program, based on a Monte Carlo simulation of radiation transport. This program (GES_MC Gamma-electron Efficiency Simulator) was written entirely in Java and was based on the EGSnrc (Electron Gamma Shower) source code. Although GES_MC was especially designed for the computation of the response function and peak efficiency for gamma detectors, it can also be used in various studies concerning photon or electron interactions with the matter in any cylindrical (RZ) geometry. Several aspects of photon and electron transport and the comparison of the program outputs with experimental data are also presented in this study.The main advantage of the Monte Carlo simulations presented in this paper is that any source and any detector can be properly sampled. In contrast with the Monte Carlo technique, for an accurate experimental result, the computation of detector efficiency for a large number of standard sources having various geometries and compositions is required (one standard source for each sample type).     

X-pinch source of subnanosecond soft X-ray pulses based on small-sized low-inductance current generator

For the first time, the regime of a micrometer-size hot spot formation is impemented for an X-pinch in a plasma, which is fed from a current generator based on low-inductance capacitors and rapid current switches. The configurations of X-pinches, which can be used effectively as point sources of soft X-rays with this type of current generator, are determined. A prototype of a small-size radiation source for high-resolution point projection X-ray radiography has been constructed. The main parameters of X-pinch as a radiation source are analyzed and compared with X-pinch parameters in high-voltage setups with shaping lines. An analysis of the data on the operation of X-pinches in generators with different parameters has led to simple relations that can be used to select optimal initial X-pinch parameters.     

Determination of the size of a radiation source by the method of calculation of diffraction patterns

In traditional X-ray radiography, which has been used for various purposes since the discovery of X-ray radiation, the shadow image of an object under study is constructed based on the difference in the absorption of the X-ray radiation by different parts of the object. The main method that ensures a high spatial resolution is the method of point projection X-ray radiography, i.e., radiography from a point and bright radiation source. For projection radiography, the small size of the source is the most important characteristic of the source, which mainly determines the spatial resolution of the method. In this work, as a point source of soft X-ray radiation for radiography with a high spatial and temporal resolution, radiation from a hot spot of X-pinches is used. The size of the radiation source in different setups and configurations can be different. For four different high-current generators, we have calculated the sizes of sources of soft X-ray radiation from X-ray patterns of corresponding objects using Fresnel-Kirchhoff integrals. Our calculations show that the size of the source is in the range 0.7–2.8 μm. The method of the determination of the size of a radiation source from calculations of Fresnel-Kirchhoff integrals makes it possible to determine the size with an accuracy that exceeds the diffraction limit, which frequently restricts the resolution of standard methods.     

波叠加声场重构精度的影响因素分析

波叠加法是利用等效源的思想来求解声辐射问题的一种数值方法.其原理并没有确切地规定如何配置等效源.正由于这些不确切性的存在,当将它应用到声场重构时,有必要检验重构的准确性,分析影响重构精度的各种因素,目的是通过分析而获得一些提高重构精度的规律.通过理论分析和数值仿真,分析了各因素对重建准确性的影响.证明等效源必须配置在辐射体内部,而且最好能与辐射体表面共形;但测量面并不需要与辐射体表面共形,而且也不需要在近场测量;还发现,Tikhonov和TSVD正则化方法很适合与波叠加法结合用于声场重构.依据这些规律能更好地应用波叠加法进行声场重构,也将拓宽其应用范围. 关键词： 声场重构 波叠加法 误差影响因素 正则化方法     

Use of a spherical albedo system for correcting the readings of albedo dosimeters in JINR phasotron neutron radiation fields

Results of calibrating a spherical albedo system in the radiation fields of a Pu-Be radionuclide neutron source are presented. It is shown that it can be used for correcting the readings of the DVGN-01 albedo dosimeter. The results of measurements with the system in JINR phasotron neutron fields for the purpose of correcting the DVGN-01 readings in these fields are given. The values of the correction factors for DVGN-01 albedo dosimeters when used in personnel neutron dosimetry (PD) on the JINR phasotron are determined.     

Equivalent charge of photons and neutrinos in a plasma

It is suggested that it is possible to define an equivalent electric charge for an intense laser pulse (which can be described as a photon bunch) propagating in a plasma. It is also shown that this equivalent charge can be a source of new radiation processes in an inhomogeneous plasma. The results are extended to the case of a neutrino bunch, which is coupled to the plasma by weak nuclear forces.     

Computer simulation of the zernike phase contrast in hard x-ray radiation using refractive lenses and zone plates

Computer simulation of an experiment on imaging transparent (phase) microobjects using the Zernike phase contrast method under hard X-ray radiation has been performed. The beam parameters typical for synchrotron radiation sources of the third generation were used in calculations. Both a refracting lens and a zone plate have been considered as a focusing element. The phase shifting quarter-wave plate is located at a spot of the point source image. The results of calculations have shown that the method can be successfully used for objects with the sizes greater than 0.1 μm along and 1 μm across the beam. It has been shown that the contrast is caused not only by increasing the intensity within the shadow of the objects, but also by decreasing the intensity in the area beyond the objects, which is necessary to retain the integral intensity.     

Optimal secondary source position in exterior spherical acoustical holophony

Exterior spherical acoustical holophony is a branch of spatial audio reproduction that deals with the rendering of a given free-field radiation pattern (the primary field) by using a compact spherical loudspeaker array (the secondary source). More precisely, the primary field is known on a spherical surface surrounding the primary and secondary sources and, since the acoustic fields are described in spherical coordinates, they are naturally subjected to spherical harmonic analysis. Besides, the inverse problem of deriving optimal driving signals from a known primary field is ill-posed because the secondary source cannot radiate high-order spherical harmonics efficiently, especially in the low-frequency range. As a consequence, a standard least-squares solution will overload the transducers if the primary field contains such harmonics. Here, this is avoided by discarding the strongly decaying spherical waves, which are identified through inspection of the radiation efficiency curves of the secondary source. However, such an unavoidable regularization procedure increases the least-squares error, which also depends on the position of the secondary source.This paper deals with the above-mentioned questions in the context of far-field directivity reproduction at low and medium frequencies. In particular, an optimal secondary source position is sought, which leads to the lowest reproduction error in the least-squares sense without overloading the transducers. In order to address this issue, a regularization quality factor is introduced to evaluate the amount of regularization required. It is shown that the optimal position improves significantly the holophonic reconstruction and maximizes the regularization quality factor (minimizes the amount of regularization), which is the main general contribution of this paper. Therefore, this factor can also be used as a cost function to obtain the optimal secondary source position.     

Ca5(PO4)3F:Ce,Mn荧光粉的老化性能研究

通过对一系列Ca5(PO4)3F:Ce和Ca5(PO4)3F:Ce,Mn(以下简称FAP:Ce和FAP:Ce,Mn)样品在荧光灯中和在强紫外光(185nm+254nm)辐照下,发光效率衰减规律及样品漫反射光谱的变化的研究,并与普通卤粉((F,Cl)AP:Sb,Mn)进行对比,发现了该材料的老化速率与样品组分的关系,即随着材料中Ce浓度的增大和氧空位的增多,老化速率变快。并根据Ryan老化理论,对材料老化的物理机制进行了初步的推测。     

Design of a self-calibrating simulated acoustic emission source

The use of conical piezoelectric transducers as point acoustic sources has been investigated. It has been shown that transducers based on a design originally developed at the National Institute for Standards and Technology in the USA can be used as point transmitters over the frequency range of interest in acoustic emission measurements (100 kHz to around 1 MHz). They should, therefore, be suitable for use in experiments to calibrate structures so that acoustic emission source strengths can be determined. It has also been shown that measurements of the response of the transmitting transducer backing can be used to assess the coupling efficiency, and hence to remove concerns about inconsistent coupling affecting the calibration measurements. The results indicate that the variation of the backing response with coupling is due to a shift in the resonance frequencies of the transducer with the mechanical load impedance. If other transducers can be shown to behave in a similar fashion this effect could be used to measure coupling in standard acoustic emission and ultrasonic transducers.     

高能X光照相CCD成像系统的模糊效应

 指出了景深、可见光衍射、辐射输运是CCD图像接收系统模糊效应的3个影响因素。用MCNP方法研究了转换屏内的辐射输运,给出了不同入射光子能谱和转换屏厚度下转换屏内能量沉积随半径的变化关系。结果表明:能量沉积随转换屏厚度的增加而线性增加;辐射输运引起的模糊与光子能谱有关,但硬化谱引起的模糊随转换屏厚度的变化小于非硬化谱;转换屏内的辐射输运是CCD图像接收系统模糊效应的主要影响因素;辐射输运引起的模糊和高斯模糊是不同的。     

Statistical measurements of irradiance fluctuations produced by a reflective membrane optical scintillator—II Application to an incoherent broadband source

Atmospheric scintillation of an incoherent broadband source has been physically simulated in the laboratory using a reflective membrane optical scintillator (RMOS). The RMOS has been shown previously to be effective with a HeNe laser source. The results with the broadband source are analysed with standard models used to represent scintillation statistics and it is shown that scintillation behaviour can be produced with the RMOS device and an incoherent broadband, divergent source.     

On the acoustic radiation modes of compact regular polyhedral arrays of independent loudspeakers

Compact spherical loudspeaker arrays can be used to provide control over their directivity pattern. Usually, this is made by adjusting the gains of preprogrammed spatial filters corresponding to a finite set of spherical harmonics, or to the acoustic radiation modes of the loudspeaker array. Unlike the former, the latter are closely related to the radiation efficiency of the source and span the subspace of the directivities it can produce. However, the radiation modes depend on frequency for arbitrary distributions of transducers on the sphere, which yields complex directivity filters. This work focuses on the most common loudspeaker array configurations, those following the regular shape of the Platonic solids. It is shown that the radiation modes of these sources are frequency independent, and simple algebraic expressions are derived for their radiation efficiencies. In addition, since such modes are vibration patterns driven by electrical signals, the transduction mechanism of compact multichannel sources is also investigated, which is an important issue, especially if the transducers interact inside a shared cabinet. For Platonic solid loudspeakers, it is shown that the common enclosure does not lead to directivity filters that depend on frequency.     

Measurement of an aeroacoustic dipole using a linear microphone array

It is shown that the standard beamformer technique is inadequate for both the source location and the measurement of a simple dipole and that this is due to the assumption of monopole propagation in the calculation of the phase weights used to steer the focus of the array. A numerical simulation is used to illustrate the problem and to develop a correction to the signal processing algorithm to account for the dipole propagation characteristic. This is then applied to array measurements for an aeroacoustic dipole produced by a cylinder in a cross flow. The resulting source map and the beamformed spectrum are shown to give a true representation of the source energy and frequency content. A secondary effect of this correction is that the array becomes insensitive to other source types so that in addition to acting as a spatial filter, the array can perform as a source filter. This work also demonstrates how an array measurement can be misinterpreted if applied without consideration of the source mechanism.     

Angular quadrature perturbations in radiative transfer theory

A new numerical method is presented for solving the general equation of radiative transfer. The approximation, which replaces the integral term over angle in the transfer equation by a quadrature sum, is studied; an estimate of the error involved is obtained and this error, which may be thought of as a further source or sink of photons (depending upon the sign), can then be used to evaluate a corection to the radiation field originally determined. This process may then be continued as a perturbation series. The method is found to give a final solution, when starting from the Eddington approximation, at least as accurate as that obtained using variable Eddington factors. Furthermore, the technique involves very little extra computing over that required using the Eddington approximation, and may be trivially generalized to any radiative transfer problem. It can also be used in conjunction with any of the existing methods for solving the equation of transfer. Examples are given in the context of spectral line formation in slab geometry.     

Radiation from an oscillating point dipole from a photonic crystal layer of dielectric nanocolumns

The radiation pattern and intensity of the electromagnetic radiation from a point dipole source (e.g., a semiconductor quantum dot) located inside a photonic crystal layer consisting of a periodically ordered array of dielectric nanocolumns have been calculated. It has been shown that the main features of radiation can be explained considering a simple model of the interaction of the dipole with Fabry-Perrot resonances of eigenmodes of the photonic crystal layer. The total power of radiation and radiation pattern strongly depend on the position of the dipole, orientation of its dipole moment, and frequency of oscillations.     

Reconstruction of the time dependence and signal parameters of far-field extended wideband sources: Part 2. Reconstruction of the directivity pattern of a moving source

The problem of measuring the radiation directivity pattern of a moving source in a horizontal plane is considered. It is shown experimentally that the angular dependence of radiation can be reconstructed at discrete frequencies in detecting an acoustic signal by a linear array positioned in the near field of the source followed by signal processing. The technique described in this work and its technical implementation can be used in developing and creating a measurement system for monitoring ship fields in the horizon plane.

     

Polarization Dynamics of a Distributed-Feedback Dye Laser

The polarization dynamics of a dye-solution laser with light-induced distributed feedback (DFB) has been analyzed. A theoretical model of a DFB-laser, which makes it possible to calculate the dynamics of the lasing process for two orthogonally polarized modes, has been constructed. The influence of three main factors — rotational diffusion of dye molecules in solution, anisotropy of the saturation effect, and orientation of the electric vector of pumping beams with respect to the plane of their incidence — on the degree of polarization of output radiation has been investigated. Comparison of the calculated dependences with the results of experimental measurements has shown that the latter factor is of the greatest importance. It is shown that in this case, the degree of polarization of the output radiation of a DFB-laser can have a complex dynamics that does not correlate with the time behavior of the lasing pulse.     

Channeling radiation: Past achievements and future prospects

Abstract

When a relativistic charged particle passes through a single crystal very nearly along a major crystalline plane or axis so that it is channeled in that direction, it undergoes periodic motion in the plane transverse to this direction and hence it can radiate. Quantum mechanically, this channeling radiation corresponds to a radiative transition between two eigenstates of the transverse crystalline potential; when the transition occurs between two bound states, a sharp spectral line is emitted. When there are only two bound states (for incident electrons), or when the interplaner potential is nearly harmonic (as for incident positrons), the emitted radiation is nearly monochromatic. Since the discovery of channeling radiation at the LLNL Electron-Positron Linear Accelerator, many of its properties have been delineated, both there and elsewhere. For example, channeling radiation is very intense, forward-directed, easily tunable, and for the planar case, linearly polarized. Channeling radiation has been used as a probe both of the interplanar potentials and other properties of perfect crystals and of the effects of impurities and defects in imperfect crystals. Finally, channeling radiation has great potential use as a photon source for numerous other applications in several fields of science and technology.

This paper is intended to keynote the first International Conference on Coherent Radiation Processes in Strong Fields by recalling some history of the discovery and exploitation to date of channeling radiation. Studies of channeling radiation, in addition to elucidating the physics of the process itself, its application to the determination of properties of perfect and imperfect crystals, and its potential application to a large variety of fields by its use as an intense, monochromatic, forward-directed, tunable, and polarized photon source, have spawned an entire industry of studies of other coherent radiation processes, all consisting of photon production from beams of relativistic charged particles traversing periodic structures, which constitute the principal subject matter of this Conference. This paper will be limited to the discussion of channeling radiation and some of its applications. It will be in the nature of an illustrative exposition, showing many of the features of channeling radiation and its applications in a qualitative way. Several detailed studies of channeling radiation will be presented later in the Conference.