NEUTRON TIME OF FLIGHT ENERGY SPECTROMETER FOR ICF ION TEMPERATURE DIAGNOSTIC

A current-mode neutron time-of-flight(nTOF) energy spectrometer for inertial confinement fusion(ICF) ion temperature measurements has been designed which will reduce measuring error of fusion neutron energy spectra when the neutron yield is low. The spectrometer consists of a shallow cup-shaped ST1422 fast plastic scintillator with a thicknees of 3mm and full effective volume of 104cm³, a microchannel plate photomultiplier tube(MCP-PMT), a piece of coaxial cable(SUJ-50-7) with a length of 20m, and a transient oscilloscope with a bandwidth of 7GHz. The main performances of the spectrometer and its components have been calibrated. The rise-time and FWHM of the temporal response function are 260ps and 850 ps, respectively. This spectrometer will be used to measure ion temperature in the direct-driven implosion experiments on Sheng-Guang 2 laser facility at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanica(SIOFM) next year.     

NEUTRON DETECTOR FOR FUSION BURN HISTORY MEASUREMENTS

We have designed a fast, sensitive neutron detector for recording the fusion history of inertial confinement fusion experiments. With a response time of <40 ps, it was for burn history measurements for deuterium/tritium-filled targets producing as few as ～10⁸ neutrons/shot. The detector is based on the fast rise-time (<20 ps) of BC422 plastic scintillator which, shaped in thin cylinder sheet or curved (in a geometry compensating way) plate, acts as a neutron-to-light converter in a Pb shielding. The Pb shielding shields the scintillator from target X-ray, scattered light and target debris and allows the scintillator to be positioned within 3 cm from the target. The scintillator emits light with wavelengths from 350 to 450 nm. A group of achromatic lens relays the scintillator image along a 1 m optical path to the S20 photocathode of a streak camera outside the chamber. Lens coupling was chosen to give acceptable temporal dispersion. In the design phase, a computer code was programmed to calculate and improve the physical parameters of the optical system, such as light collection efficiency, time dispersion, image position, intensity distribution on the image plane, etc. Some of these parameters were finally measured using a deuterium lamp and a piece of BC422 scintillator activated by X-ray or 0.35 μm laser pulse. The measured results agree well with the prediction of the computer code.     

激光直接驱动内爆DT燃料面密度诊断

在神光Ⅱ基频光直接驱动内爆实验中,利用CR39径迹探测器测量了DT靶丸释放出的14MeV中子弹性散射后逃逸出燃料的反冲D核和反冲T核的数量,实现了激光聚变实验中燃料面密度〈ρR〉的诊断.测量结果表明,靶面激光照射均匀度对压缩状态具有一定程度的影响,爆推靶〈ρR〉低于烧蚀靶〈ρR〉一个量级左右,表明烧蚀靶压缩情况比爆推靶好,超热电子预热严重影响压缩 关键词： 惯性约束聚变 等离子体诊断 燃料面密度 CR39