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Title: Inelastic X-ray Scattering from Shocked Liquid Deuterium

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
  2. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
  3. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); AWE plc, Reading (United Kingdom)
  4. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  5. Warwick Univ., Coventry (United Kingdom)

The Fermi-degenerate plasma conditions created in liquid deuterium by a laser-ablation—driven shock wave were probed with noncollective, spectrally resolved, inelastic x-ray Thomson scattering employing Cl Lyα line emission at 2.96 keV. Thus, these first x-ray Thomson scattering measurements of the microscopic properties of shocked deuterium show an inferred spatially averaged electron temperature of 8±5 eV, an electron density of 2.2(±0.5)×1023 cm-3, and an ionization of 0.8 (-0.25, +0.15). Our two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations using equation-of-state models suited for the extreme parameters occurring in inertial confinement fusion research and planetary interiors are consistent with the experimental results.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-07NA27344
OSTI ID:
1237560
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1102618
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-520531
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, Issue 26; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 44 works
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Impact of first-principles properties of deuterium–tritium on inertial confinement fusion target designs journal April 2015
Measurement of ionic structure in isochorically heated graphite from X-ray Thomson scattering journal February 2019
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