The National Ignition Facility (NIF) Diagnostic Set at the Completion of the National Ignition Campaign (NIC) September 2013

Kilkenny, J.¹  Bell, P. E.¹  Bradley, D. K.¹  Bleuel, D. L.¹  Caggiano, J. A.¹  Dewald, E. L.¹  Hsing, W.¹  Kalantar, H.¹  Kauffman, R.¹  Moody, J. D.¹  Schneider, M. B.¹  Shaughnessy, D. A.¹  Shelton, R. T.¹  Yeamans, C. B.¹  Batha, S. H.¹  Grim, G. P.¹  Herrmann, H. W.¹  Merrill, F. E.¹  Leeper, R. J.¹  Sangster, T. C.¹  Edgell, D. H.¹  Glebov, V. Y.¹  Regan, S. P.¹  Frenje, J. A.¹  Gatu-Johnson, M.¹  Petrasso, R. D.¹  Rindernecht, H. G.¹  Zylstra, A. B.¹  Cooper, G. W.¹  Ruiz, C.¹ 

[1]Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

DOI  :  10.2172/1179390
RP-ID  :  LLNL-TR--666418
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1179390

Subject:71.1

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

At the completion of the National Ignition Campaign NIF had about 36 different types of diagnostics. These were based on several decades of development on Nova and OMEGA and involved the whole US ICF community. A plan for a limited of NIF Diagnostics was documented by the Joint Central Diagnostic Team in the NIF Conceptual Design Report in 1994. These diagnostics and many more were installed diagnostics by two decades later. We give a short description of each of the 36 different types of NIC diagnostics grouped by the function of the diagnostics, namely target drive, target response and target assembly, stagnation and burn. A comparison of NIF diagnostics with the Nova diagnostics shows that the NIF diagnostic capability is broadly equivalent to that of Nova???s in 1999. NIF diagnostics have a much greater degree of automation and rigor than Nova???s and the NIF diagnostic suite incorporates some scientific innovation compared to Nova and OMEGA namely one much higher speed x-ray imager. Directions for future NIF diagnostics are discussed.