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Title: Development of a WDM platform for charged-particle stopping experiments

Journal Article · · Journal of Physics. Conference Series
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  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  3. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  4. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  5. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  6. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  7. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  8. Lab. for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY (United States)
  9. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
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In this study, a platform has been developed for generating large and relatively quiescent plasmas in the warm-dense matter (WDM) regime on the OMEGA laser facility. A cylindrical geometry is used to allow charged-particle probing along the axis. The plasma heating is radiative by L-shell emission generated on the outside of the cylinder. The cylinder drive is characterized with x-ray diagnostics. Possibilities for direct characterization of the plasma temperature are discussed. Finally, the unimportance of electromagnetic fields around the target is demonstrated with proton radiography. We expect this platform to be used extensively in future experiments studying charged-particle stopping in this regime.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Grant/Contract Number:
NA0002726; NA0001857; NA0002949; AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1261161
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1261162; OSTI ID: 1261163; OSTI ID: 1337087
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-29128
Journal Information:
Journal of Physics. Conference Series, Vol. 717; Conference: The Ninth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA 2015), Seattle, WA (United States), 20-25 Sep 2015; ISSN 1742-6588
Publisher:
IOP PublishingCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 5 works
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Reaction-in-flight neutrons as a test of stopping power in degenerate plasmas journal August 2015
Monoenergetic proton backlighter for measuring E and B fields and for radiographing implosions and high-energy density plasmas (invited) journal October 2006
Imaging x-ray Thomson scattering spectrometer design and demonstration (invited) journal October 2012
Charged-particle acceleration and energy loss in laser-produced plasmas journal December 2000

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