The effect of scattered neutrons on the ion temperature measurement with different line-of-sight on the SGIII laser facility

• Published in: AIP Advances
• Main Authors: Zhongjing Chen, Jianhua Zheng, Ji Yan, Xing Zhang, Yudong Pu, Yunsong Dong, Tianxuan Huang, Wei Jiang, Bo Yu, Bolun Chen, Qi Tang, Zifeng Song, Xufei Xie, Feng Wang, Jiamin Yang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2019
• Subjects: Physics; QC1-999; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5064611; https://doaj.org/article/8c220afec71d4b609e26824f9c0a200e

Two neutron time-of-flight (nToF) detectors have been employed to measure the neutron time-of-flight spectrum in different lines-of-sight, i.e., at the equator plane and the south pole, on Shenguang-III (SG-III) laser facility. The contribution of scattered neutrons has been calculated with the Monte Carlo code JMCT for each nToF detector. The results show that the scattered neutron spectrum is dominated by neutrons scattered on materials in the experiment hall, including the vacuum chamber. The shape of the scattered neutron spectrum depends on the view line, which has been observed with nToF detectors located in the experiment hall of the SG-III laser facility. A method based on the convolution of the calculated neutron time-of-flight spectrum and the instrument response function has been developed for the ion temperature determination. The calculated neutron spectra with the contribution of scattered neutrons can fit the measured results. No obvious ion temperature anisotropy has been observed on the SG-III laser facility at present.