1. Custom-designed scintillator for laser fusion diagnostics – Pr3+-doped fluoro-phosphate lithium glass scintillator
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Arikawa, Yasunobu, Yamanoi, Kohei, Nakazato, Tomoharu, Estacio, Elmer Surat, Shimizu, Toshihiko, Sarukura, Nobuhiko, Nakai, Mitsuo, Norimatsu, Takayoshi, Hironaka, Youichirou, Azechi, Hiroshi, Murata, Takahiro, Fujino, Shigeru, Yoshida, Hideki, Kamada, Kei, Usuki, Yoshiyuki, Suyama, Toshihisa, Yoshikawa, Akira, Satoh, Nakahiro, and Kan, Hirohumi
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SCINTILLATORS , *LASER fusion , *PLASMA diagnostics , *RARE earth ions , *PHOSPHATES , *NEUTRON scattering , *HIGH-density plasmas - Abstract
Abstract: A novel custom-developed scintillator for laser fusion diagnostics is reported. With the aim of diagnosing scattered neutrons from the imploded high-density fusion plasma, a fast response lithium-6 glass scintillator has been developed. Praseodymium, instead of the more widely-used cerium was chosen as the dopant. Sufficiently fast luminescence lifetime for scattered neutron diagnostics (<20ns) was experimentally observed, and the feasibility was successfully shown in laser-fusion experiments at the GEKKO XII facility of the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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