1. Performance of a hardened x-ray streak camera at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility
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Andrew G. MacPhee, Perry M. Bell, Dusty Boyle, Arthur C. Carpenter, Liam Claus, Matthew Dayton, Jack Dean, Anthony K. L. Dymoke-Bradshaw, Cassandra Durand, Brad Funsten, Anne Garafalo, Brad P. Golick, Jonathan D. Hares, Jeremy Hill, Justin M. Kehl, Shahab F. Khan, J. D. Kilkenny, Mike J. MacDonald, Devon Maheshwari, Ian J. Mccubbin, Sabrina R. Nagel, Peter R. Nyholm, Nathan E. Palmer, Robert B. Petre, Marcos Sanchez, Marilyn B. Schneider, Markus O. Schoelmerich, Stanislav Stoupin, and Adrianne Welton
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Instrumentation - Abstract
Electron tubes continue to provide the highest speeds possible for recording dynamics of hot high-energy density plasmas. Standard streak camera drive electronics and CCD readout are not compatible with the radiation environment associated with high DT fusion yield inertial confinement fusion experiments >1013 14 MeV DT neutrons or >109 n cm−2 ns−1. We describe a hardened x-ray streak camera developed for the National Ignition Facility and present preliminary results from the first experiment on which it has participated, recording the time-resolved bremsstrahlung spectrum from the core of an inertial confinement fusion implosion at more than 40× the operational neutron yield limit of the previous National Ignition Facility x-ray streak cameras.
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- 2022
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