Published October 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Shielding a streak camera from hard x rays

  • 1. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-472 Livermore, California 94550 (United States)

Description

The targets used in the hot halfraum campaign at OMEGA create many hot electrons, which result in a large flux of hard x rays. The hard x rays produce a high background in the streak camera. The background was significantly reduced by wrapping the streak camera with a high-Z material; in this case, 1/8 in. of Pb. The large hard x-ray flux also adds noise to images from framing cameras which use charge-coupled devices

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Review of Scientific Instruments
Journal Volume
75
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 4040-4041
ISSN
0034-6748
CODEN
RSINAK

Conference

Title
15. topical conference on high temperature plasma diagnostics
Dates
19-22 Apr 2004
Place
San Diego, CA (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36083189
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CARRIERS; CHARGE-COUPLED DEVICES; HARD X RADIATION; IMAGES; NOISE; SHIELDING; STREAK CAMERAS; X-RAY RADIOGRAPHY
Descriptors DEC
CAMERAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MATERIALS TESTING; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; RADIATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TESTING; X RADIATION

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(c) 2004 American Institute of Physics