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Time-Resolved Measurements of Plasma Conditions and Gradients in Radiatively-Heated Foils

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It is now possible to produce intense approximately Planckian X-ray pulses in the laboratory with high-power laser systems. These are currently of considerable interest as possible drives in inertial confinement fusion experiments. Also, they can be used for the production of uniform, gradient-free plasmas which cannot be produced by other means in the laboratory and which are ideal for the testing of theoretical calculations (of e.g. opacities and radiative transfer) relevant for laboratory as well as astrophysics research.1,2 Therefore, investigations of the interaction of intense soft-X-ray pulses with targets are important for the design of future experiments. In this paper we present the results of several experiments performed using the VULCAN laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and designed to investigate the interaction of soft-X-ray pulses with low-Z planar targets.3,4,5

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  1. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon., OX11 0QX, UK

    J. Edwards, M. Dunne, D. Riley, R. Taylor, O. Willi & S. J. Rose

  2. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

    S. J. Rose

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  1. Fusion Studies Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

    George H. Miley

  2. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    Heinrich Hora

  3. University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia

    Heinrich Hora

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Edwards, J., Dunne, M., Riley, D., Taylor, R., Willi, O., Rose, S.J. (1992). Time-Resolved Measurements of Plasma Conditions and Gradients in Radiatively-Heated Foils. In: Miley, G.H., Hora, H. (eds) Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3324-5_23

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