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Lazicki A, McGonegle D, Rygg JR, Braun DG, Swift DC, Gorman MG, Smith RF, Heighway PG, Higginbotham A, Suggit MJ, Fratanduono DE, Coppari F, Wehrenberg CE, Kraus RG, Erskine D, Bernier JV, McNaney JM, Rudd RE, Collins GW, Eggert JH, Wark JS. Metastability of diamond ramp-compressed to 2 terapascals. Nature 2021; 589:532-5. [PMID: 33505034 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03140-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Carbon is the fourth-most prevalent element in the Universe and essential for all known life. In the elemental form it is found in multiple allotropes, including graphite, diamond and fullerenes, and it has long been predicted that even more structures can exist at pressures greater than those at Earth's core1-3. Several phases have been predicted to exist in the multi-terapascal regime, which is important for accurate modelling of the interiors of carbon-rich exoplanets4,5. By compressing solid carbon to 2 terapascals (20 million atmospheres; more than five times the pressure at Earth's core) using ramp-shaped laser pulses and simultaneously measuring nanosecond-duration time-resolved X-ray diffraction, we found that solid carbon retains the diamond structure far beyond its regime of predicted stability. The results confirm predictions that the strength of the tetrahedral molecular orbital bonds in diamond persists under enormous pressure, resulting in large energy barriers that hinder conversion to more-stable high-pressure allotropes1,2, just as graphite formation from metastable diamond is kinetically hindered at atmospheric pressure. This work nearly doubles the highest pressure at which X-ray diffraction has been recorded on any material.
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Rygg JR, Smith RF, Lazicki AE, Braun DG, Fratanduono DE, Kraus RG, McNaney JM, Swift DC, Wehrenberg CE, Coppari F, Ahmed MF, Barrios MA, Blobaum KJM, Collins GW, Cook AL, Di Nicola P, Dzenitis EG, Gonzales S, Heidl BF, Hohenberger M, House A, Izumi N, Kalantar DH, Khan SF, Kohut TR, Kumar C, Masters ND, Polsin DN, Regan SP, Smith CA, Vignes RM, Wall MA, Ward J, Wark JS, Zobrist TL, Arsenlis A, Eggert JH. X-ray diffraction at the National Ignition Facility. Rev Sci Instrum 2020; 91:043902. [PMID: 32357733 DOI: 10.1063/1.5129698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 03/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We report details of an experimental platform implemented at the National Ignition Facility to obtain in situ powder diffraction data from solids dynamically compressed to extreme pressures. Thin samples are sandwiched between tamper layers and ramp compressed using a gradual increase in the drive-laser irradiance. Pressure history in the sample is determined using high-precision velocimetry measurements. Up to two independently timed pulses of x rays are produced at or near the time of peak pressure by laser illumination of thin metal foils. The quasi-monochromatic x-ray pulses have a mean wavelength selectable between 0.6 Å and 1.9 Å depending on the foil material. The diffracted signal is recorded on image plates with a typical 2θ x-ray scattering angle uncertainty of about 0.2° and resolution of about 1°. Analytic expressions are reported for systematic corrections to 2θ due to finite pinhole size and sample offset. A new variant of a nonlinear background subtraction algorithm is described, which has been used to observe diffraction lines at signal-to-background ratios as low as a few percent. Variations in system response over the detector area are compensated in order to obtain accurate line intensities; this system response calculation includes a new analytic approximation for image-plate sensitivity as a function of photon energy and incident angle. This experimental platform has been used up to 2 TPa (20 Mbar) to determine the crystal structure, measure the density, and evaluate the strain-induced texturing of a variety of compressed samples spanning periods 2-7 on the periodic table.
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- J R Rygg
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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Coppari F, Smith RF, Thorn DB, Rygg JR, Liedahl DA, Kraus RG, Lazicki A, Millot M, Eggert JH. Optimized x-ray sources for x-ray diffraction measurements at the Omega Laser Facility. Rev Sci Instrum 2019; 90:125113. [PMID: 31893795 DOI: 10.1063/1.5111878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2019] [Accepted: 11/20/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The use of x-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements in laser-driven dynamic compression experiments at high-power laser facilities is becoming increasingly common. Diffraction allows one to probe in situ the transformations occurring at the atomic level at extreme conditions of pressure, temperature, and time scale. In these measurements, the x-ray source is generated by irradiation of a solid foil. Under certain laser drive conditions, quasimonochromatic He-α radiation is generated. Careful analysis of the x-ray source plasma spectra reveals that this radiation is not a single line emission and that monochromaticity is highly dependent on the laser irradiance. In this work, we analyze how the spectra emitted by laser-irradiated copper, germanium, and iron foils at the Omega Laser vary depending on different laser drive conditions and discuss the implications for XRD experiments.
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- F Coppari
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Hall GN, Krauland CM, Schollmeier MS, Kemp GE, Buscho JG, Hibbard R, Thompson N, Casco ER, Ayers MJ, Ayers SL, Meezan NB, Hopkins LFB, Nora R, Hammel BA, Masse L, Field JE, Bradley DK, Bell P, Landen OL, Kilkenny JD, Mariscal D, Park J, McCarville TJ, Lowe-Webb R, Kalantar D, Kohut T, Piston K. The Crystal Backlighter Imager: A spherically bent crystal imager for radiography on the National Ignition Facility. Rev Sci Instrum 2019; 90:013702. [PMID: 30709218 DOI: 10.1063/1.5058700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The Crystal Backlighter Imager (CBI) is a quasi-monochromatic, near-normal incidence, spherically bent crystal imager developed for the National Ignition Facility (NIF), which will allow inertial confinement fusion capsule implosions to be radiographed close to stagnation. This is not possible using the standard pinhole-based area-backlighter configuration, as the self-emission from the capsule hotspot overwhelms the backlighter signal in the final stages of the implosion. The CBI mitigates the broadband self-emission from the capsule hot spot by using the extremely narrow bandwidth inherent to near-normal-incidence Bragg diffraction. Implementing a backlighter system based on near-normal reflection in the NIF chamber presents unique challenges, requiring the CBI to adopt novel engineering and operational strategies. The CBI currently operates with an 11.6 keV backlighter, making it the highest energy radiography diagnostic based on spherically bent crystals to date. For a given velocity, Doppler shift is proportional to the emitted photon energy. At 11.6 keV, the ablation velocity of the backlighter plasma results in a Doppler shift that is significant compared to the bandwidth of the instrument and the width of the atomic line, requiring that the shift be measured to high accuracy and the optics aligned accordingly to compensate. Experiments will be presented that used the CBI itself to measure the backlighter Doppler shift to an accuracy of better than 1 eV. These experiments also measured the spatial resolution of CBI radiographs at 7.0 μm, close to theoretical predictions. Finally, results will be presented from an experiment in which the CBI radiographed a capsule implosion driven by a 1 MJ NIF laser pulse, demonstrating a significant (>100) improvement in the backlighter to self-emission ratio compared to the pinhole-based area-backlighter configuration.
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- G N Hall
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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Huntington CM, McNaney JM, Gumbrell E, Krygier A, Wehrenberg C, Park HS. Bremsstrahlung x-ray generation for high optical depth radiography applications on the National Ignition Facility. Rev Sci Instrum 2018; 89:10G121. [PMID: 30399794 DOI: 10.1063/1.5039379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Accepted: 08/26/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We have tested a set of x-ray sources for use as probes of highly attenuating, laser-driven experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF). Unlike traditional x-ray sources that optimize for a characteristic atomic transition (often the n = 2 → n = 1 transition in ionized, He-like atoms), the design presented here maximizes the total photon flux by optimizing for intense, broadband Bremsstrahlung radiation. Three experiments were performed with identical targets, including a uranium x-ray source foil and a tungsten substrate with a narrow (25 μm wide) collimating slit to produce a quasi-1D x-ray source. Two experiments were performed using 12 beams from the NIF laser, each delivering approximately 46 kJ of laser energy but with different laser spatial profiles. This pair yielded similar temporal x-ray emission profiles, spatial resolution, and inferred hot electron temperature. A third experiment with only 6 beams delivering approximately 25 kJ produced a lower hot electron temperature and significantly lower x-ray flux, as well as poorer spatial resolution. The data suggest that laser pointing jitter may have affected the location and intensity of the emitting plasma, producing an emission volume that was not well centered behind the collimating slit and lower intensity than designed. However, the 12-beam design permits x-ray radiography through highly attenuating samples, where lower energy line-emission x-ray sources would be nearly completely attenuated.
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- C M Huntington
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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LeFevre HJ, Ma K, Belancourt PX, MacDonald MJ, Döppner T, Huntington CM, Johnsen E, Keiter PA, Kuranz CC. A platform for x-ray Thomson scattering measurements of radiation hydrodynamics experiments on the NIF. Rev Sci Instrum 2018; 89:10F105. [PMID: 30399938 DOI: 10.1063/1.5039392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We present an experimental design for a radiation hydrodynamics experiment at the National Ignition Facility that measures the electron temperature of a shocked region using the x-ray Thomson scattering technique. Previous National Ignition Facility experiments indicate a reduction in Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth due to high energy fluxes, compared to the shocked energy flux, from radiation and electron heat conduction. In order to better quantify the effects of these energy fluxes, we modified the previous experiment to allow for non-collective x-ray Thomson scattering to measure the electron temperature. Photometric calculations combined with synthetic scattering spectra demonstrate an estimated noise.
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- H J LeFevre
- Applied Physics, University of Michigan, 450 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2350 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, USA
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- Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2350 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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