Streaked radiography measurements of convergent ablator performance (invited)
- 1 October 2010
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 81 (10) , 10E304
Abstract
The velocity and remaining ablator mass of an imploding capsule are critical metrics for assessing the progress toward ignition of an inertially confined fusion experiment. These and other ablator rocket parameters have been measured using a single streaked x-ray radiograph. A regularization technique has been used to determine the ablator density profile ρ(r) at each time step; moments of ρ(r) then provide the areal density, average radius, and mass of the unablated, or remaining, ablator material, with the velocity determined from the time derivative of the average radius. The technique has been implemented on experiments at the OMEGA laser facility.Keywords
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