Quick Shot
XRTS Planar Target
April 22, 2013
Senior manufacturing engineer Karl Lintz inspects an x-ray Thomson-scattering (XRTS) planar cryogenic target that will be used to measure collective x-ray scattering from shocked liquid deuterium on OMEGA. The target, designed and fabricated entirely at LLE, has a 40° scattering geometry. XRTS is a primary diagnostic technique used to probe the plasma conditions of high-energy-density–physics plasmas created for inertial confinement fusion research or laboratory astrophysics experiments. XRTS research at LLE involves scientists from around the world.