Inelastic X-ray Scattering from Shocked Liquid Deuterium
- Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
- Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
- Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); AWE plc, Reading (United Kingdom)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- 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
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