An important criterion for reliable multi-monochromatic x-ray imager diagnostics and its impact on the reconstructed images

Temperature and density asymmetry diagnosis is critical to advance inertial confinement fusion(ICF) science. A multimonochromatic x-ray imager, MMI, records the spectral signature from an ICF implosion core with time resolution, 2D spatial resolution and spectral resolution. While narrow-band images and 2D space-resolved spectra from the MMI data constrain the temperature and the density spatial structure of the core, the accuracy of the images and the spectra highly depends on the quality of the MMI data and the processing tools. Here, we synthetically investigate the criterion for reliable MMI diagnostics and its effects on the accuracy of the reconstructed images. The pinhole array tilt determines the object spatial sampling efficiency and the minimum reconstruction width, w. When the spectral width associated with w is significantly narrower than the spectral linewidth, the line images reconstructed from the MMI data become reliable. The MMI setup has to be optimized for every application to meet this criterion for reliable ICF diagnostics.

Collisional-Radiative Calculations of Optically Thin and Thick Plasmas Using the Computational Package ABAKO/RAPCAL

Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium(NLTE)conditions are universal in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas and,for this reason,the theory of NLTE plasmas is nowadays a very active subject.The populations of atomic levels and radiative properties are essential magnitudes in the study of these plasmas and the calculation of those properties relies on the so-called collisional-radiative(CR)models.However,the complexity of these models has led to the development of numerous collisionalradiative codes and this is a current research topic in plasmas.In this work is presented a versatile computational package,named ABAKO/RAPCAL,to calculate the populations of atomic levels and radiative properties of optically thin and thick,lowto-high Z,NLTE plasmas.ABAKO/RAPCAL combines a set of analytical approximations which yield substantial savings in computing running time,still comparing well with more elaborated codes and experimental data.In order to show the capabilities of the code and the accuracy of its results,calculations of several relevant plasma magnitudes for various plasma situations are shown and compared.