Quick Shot

The second and third generation of gas Cherenkov detectors, GCD-2 and -3, sit in the foreground next to one of the ten-inch manipulators, which are used to insert these instruments into the OMEGA target chamber. In the background is OMEGA Experimental System Technician Dan Neyland at the portable manifold, which is part of the system that allows the detector to be evacuated or pressurized with different gasses remotely from below the Target Bay. The third-generation gas Cherenkov detector, used on recent experiments by Los Alamos National Laboratory, records the multitude of gamma rays produced during inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosions.