Review of secondary and tertiary reactions, and neutron scattering as diagnostic techniques for inertial confinement fusion targets

Fuel areal density, , is a fundamental quantity for ICF implosions. For current and future targets, areal densities are large enough that a variety of neutron based diagnostic techniques can be used to determine fuel . This paper describes these techniques and gives an overview of the current experimental status

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