Characterization of laser-produced carbon plasmas relevant to laboratory astrophysics

Schaeffer, D. B.; Bondarenko, A. S.; Everson, E. T.; Clark, S. E.; Constantin, C. G.; Niemann, C.

doi:10.1063/1.4959148

Title: Characterization of laser-produced carbon plasmas relevant to laboratory astrophysics

Journal Article · Fri Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Applied Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4959148· OSTI ID:1467853

Schaeffer, D. B. ^[1]; Bondarenko, A. S. ^[1]; Everson, E. T. ^[1]; Clark, S. E. ^[1]; Constantin, C. G. ^[1];

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Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

Experiments, analytic modeling, and numerical simulations are presented here to characterize carbon plasmas produced by high-intensity (10⁹-10¹³ W cm^-2) lasers relevant to experimental laboratory astrophysics. In the large-scale limit, the results agree well with a self-similar isentropic, adiabatic fluid model. Laser-target simulations, however, show small-scale structure in the velocity distribution of different ion species, which is also seen in experiments. These distributions indicate that most of the plasma energy resides in moderate charge states (C⁺³–C⁺⁴), most of the mass resides in the lowest charge states, and the highest charge states move fastest.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC); Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0006538; HDTRA1-12-1-0024; NA0001995; 1414591

OSTI ID:: 1467853

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1268440

Journal Information:: Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 120, Issue 4; ISSN 0021-8979

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