Abstract
The first direct measurement of fuel density-radius product in laser-fusion experiments is obtained by measuring the number of deuterium and tritium ions elastically scattered out of the fuel by 14-MeV fusion neutrons. They were recorded with the solid-state track detector CR-39. The energy spectrum of these particles is found to agree well with the theoretical result. This diagnostic was used in low- and high-compression experiments and gave measured values of 1.3× and 1.2× g/, with an uncertainty of ∼ 20%.
- Received 3 May 1982
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.463
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