Quick Shot

A nuclear interaction vessel (NIV) was designed and fabricated for OMEGA nuclear reactions experiments. It is positioned 9 cm from the center of the OMEGA target chamber and is constructed of thin-wall (1‑mm) aluminum to minimize additional neutron-scattering signals. The NIV is attached to a specially designed bracket mounted in one of the ten-inch manipulator (TIM) diagnostic ports on the OMEGA target chamber. The NIV was filled with either deuterated or non-deuterated compounds for the initial experiments on OMEGA to study the deuterium break-up reaction. Future experiments will use other low-Z compounds to investigate additional break-up reactions that are of interest to the nuclear physics community. Shown is Research Associate, Chad Forrest, who is configuring the NIV for target physics shots on OMEGA. The primary support for the NIV came from Experimental Support Group Leader Chuck Sorce and Senior Manufacturing Engineer John Szczepanski.