The velocity distribution of the hotspot in an inertial confinement fusion implosion changes the energy spectra of fusion neutrons emitted from the experiment as a function of viewing angle. These velocity-induced spectral changes affect the response of neutron activation diagnostics (NADs) positioned around the experiment and must be accounted for to correctly extract information about areal density () asymmetry from the data. Three mechanisms through which average hotspot velocity affects NAD activation are addressed: change in activation cross section due to the Doppler shift of the mean neutron energy, kinematic focusing of neutron fluence, and change in the scattering cross section due to the Doppler shift. Using the hotspot velocity inferred from neutron time-of-flight measurements of D-T and D-D fusion neutrons, the hotspot velocity is shown to account for the observed NAD activation asymmetry in a calibration shot with negligible fuel . A robust method to evaluate uncertainties in spherical-harmonic fits to the NAD data due to the velocity correction and detector uncertainty is discussed.
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