Neutrons are powerful tools for investigating the structure and properties of materials used in
science and technology. Recently, laser-driven neutron sources (LDNS) have attracted the …

Collisional kinetic modifications of ion distributions in interpenetrating flows are investigated
by irradiating two opposing targets, either CD/CD or CD/CH, on the National Ignition Facility …

Abstract A Monte Carlo (MC) code simulating the kinetics of two-particle collisions has
shown to have certain advantages in the spectral analysis of neutrons from fast-ignition …

Fusion reactions in a plasma environment are fundamental issues with general interest in
high energy density sciences. The reaction rate in an astro-system, which may differ from …

We report on numerical simulations of laser-driven convergent plasma fusion targets. These
“inverted corona” fusion targets are useful for the study of counter-streaming and converging …

We present experimental studies of inverted-corona targets as neutron sources at the
OMEGA Laser Facility and the National Ignition Facility (NIF). Laser beams are directed onto …

Laser-driven “inverted corona” fusion targets have attracted interest as a low-convergence
neutron source and platform for studying kinetic physics. The scheme consists of a hollow or …

We study neutron production in interactions of an intense laser pulse with solid, near-critical
density and foam targets, by two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. We find that …

We propose a new scheme to generate a neutron source with a short duration, and the
scheme is validated in two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations. When a laser …

A design of multichannel gated photomultiplier tube (PMT) is presented for the 960-channel
neutron time-of-flight detector at the Institute of Laser Engineering of Osaka University. This …