Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 11, 3401075 (2016)

Regular Articles

Method for Detection of Nuclear-Plasma Interactions in a ¹³⁴Xe-Doped Exploding Pusher at the National Ignition Facility

Darren L. BLEUEL¹⁾, Lee A. BERNSTEIN¹⁾, Christopher A. BRAND^1,2), William S. CASSATA¹⁾, Brian H. DAUB^1,2), Lucile S. DAUFFY¹⁾, Bethany L. GOLDBLUM²⁾, James M. HALL¹⁾, Chris A. HAGMANN¹⁾, Laura Berzak HOPKINS¹⁾, Hesham Y. KHATER¹⁾, Andrea L. KRITCHER¹⁾, Dieter H. G. SCHNEIDER¹⁾, Sunniva SIEM³⁾, Carol A. VELSKO¹⁾ and Mathis WIEDEKING⁴⁾

1): Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
2): University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
3): University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
4): iThemba LABS, Somerset West 7129, South Africa

(Received 10 July 2015 / Accepted 26 February 2016 / Published 10 June 2016)

Abstract

Angular momentum changes due to nuclear-plasma interactions on highly-excited nuclei in high energy density plasmas created at the National Ignition Facility can be measured through a change in isomer feeding following gamma emission. We propose an experiment to detect these effects in ¹³³Xe^∗ in exploding pusher capsules.

Keywords

nuclear, plasma, laser, isomer, high energy density, activation, fusion

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.11.3401075

Full Text

PDF format (2.0Mbytes) PDF Download

References

[1] Z.Y. Bao, H. Beer, F. Kappeler, F. Voss and K. Wisshak, Atomic Data Nucl. Data Tables 76, 70 (2000).
[2] Personal Communication with V. Meot, CEA (unpublished).
[3] A. Kritcher et al. (in preparation).
[4] S. Kishimoto, Y. Yoda, M. Seto, Y. Kobayashi, S. Kitao, R. Haruki, T. Kawauchi, K. Fukutani and T. Okano, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1831 (2000).
[5] S. Kishimoto, Y. Yoda, Y. Kobayashi, S. Kitao, R. Haruki and M. Seto, Nucl. Phys. A 748, 3 (2005).
[6] I. Ahmad, R.W. Dunford, H. Esbensen, D.S. Gemmell, E.P. Kanter, U. Rtt and S.H. Southworth, Phys. Rev. C 61, 051304 (2000).
[7] M.J. Edwards, P.K. Patel, J.D. Lindl, L.J. Atherton, S.H. Glenzer, S.W. Haan, J.D. Kilkenny, O.L. Landen, E.I. Moses et al., Phys. Plasmas 20, 070501 (2013).
[8] S. Le Pape, L. Divol, L. Berzak Hopkins, A. Mackinnon, N. B. Meezan, D. Casey, J. Frenje, H. Herrmann, J. McNaney et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 225002 (2014).
[9] M.J. Rosenberg, A.B. Zylstra, F.H. Sguin, H.G. Rinderknecht, J.A. Frenje, M. Gatu Johnson, H. Sio, C.J. Waugh, N. Sinenian et al., Phys. Plasmas 21, 122712 (2014).
[10] D.A. Shaughnessy, C.A. Velsko, D.R. Jedlovec, C.B. Yeamans, K.J. Moody, E. Tereshatov, W. Stoeffl and A. Riddle, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 83, 10D917 (2012).
[11] X-5 MONTE CARLO TEAM, "MCNP - A General Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code, Version 5 - Volume I: Overview and Theory", LA-UR-03-1987, Los Alamos National Laboratory, revised 2/2008 (2008).
[12] A.J. Koning, S. Hilaire and M.C. Duijvestijn, "TALYS-1.0", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology, edited by O. Bersillon, F. Gunsing, E. Bauge, R. Jacqmin and S. Leray (Nice, France, 2007).
[13] R.A. Sigg and P.K. Kuroda, Nucl. Sci. Eng. 60, 230 (1976).
[14] A. Reggoug, G. Paic and M. Berrada, "Measurement of (n,2n) reaction cross sections by X-ray spectroscopy", Prog. Univ. Mohammed V, Rabat, Annual Report No.5, p.14 (1982).
[15] A. Schiller, L. Bergholt, M. Guttormsen, E. Melby, J. Rekstad and S. Siem, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 447, 498 (2000).
[16] G. Gosselin and P. Morel, Phys. Rev. C 70, 064603 (2004).
[17] H.-K. Chung, M.H. Chen, W.L. Morgan, Yu. Ralchenko and R.W. Lee, High Energy Density Physics 1, 3 (2005).
[18] M. Wiedeking, L.A. Bernstein, M. Krtička, D.L. Bleuel, J.M. Allmond, M.S. Basunia, J.T. Burke, P. Fallon, R.B. Firestone, B.L. Goldblum, R. Hatarik, P.T. Lake, I-Y. Lee, S.R. Lesher, S. Paschalis, M. Petri, L. Phair and N.D. Scielzo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 162503 (2012).
[19] M. Guttormsen, R. Chankova, U. Agvaanluvsan, E. Algin, L.A. Bernstein, F. Ingebretsen, T. Lönroth, S. Messelt, G. E. Mitchell, J. Rekstad, A. Schiller, S. Siem, A. C. Sunde, A. Voinov and S. Ødegård, Phys. Rev. C 71, 044307 (2005).