Plasma temperatures from first-hit neutron time-of-flight spectra
- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Review of Scientific Instruments
- Vol. 63 (10) , 4877-4879
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1143537
Abstract
We describe a new technique for determining an inertial‐confinement‐fusion plasma temperature from a neutron time‐of‐flight spectrum recorded with a multielement detector array−even when each array element becomes fully saturated. A temperature uncertainty 6 neutrons. Temperatures determined for capsules yielding more than 2×109 neutrons are consistent with those determined with a 20‐m current‐mode time‐of‐flight detector.Keywords
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