Nuclear diagnostic commissioning for the national ignition campaign

Summary form only given, as follows. Nuclear diagnostics aiming at measuring neutron yield, ion temperature, neutron bang time and down scattered ratio are a main component of the National Ignition Campaign. Therefore in order to commission these diagnostic, polar direct drive experiments on exploding pusher target have been taking place on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to produce neutron yield up to about 2e
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neutron. Results of the exploding pusher performance on the NIF as well as progress on the neutron diagnostic commissioning will be presented in this talk.