Design of laboratory experiments to study radiation-driven implosions

Keiter, P. A.; Trantham, M.; Malamud, G.; Klein, S. R.; Davis, J.; VanDervort, R.; Shvarts, D.; Drake, R. P.; Stone, J. M.; Fraenkel, M.; Frank, Y.; Raicher, E.

doi:10.1016/j.hedp.2017.01.002

Title: Design of laboratory experiments to study radiation-driven implosions

Journal Article · Fri Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2017 · High Energy Density Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hedp.2017.01.002· OSTI ID:1454536

Keiter, P. A. ^[1]; Trantham, M. ^[1]; Malamud, G. ^[1]; Klein, S. R. ^[1]; Davis, J. ^[1]; VanDervort, R. ^[1]; Shvarts, D. ^[1]; Drake, R. P. ^[1]; Stone, J. M. ^[2]; Fraenkel, M. ^[3]; Frank, Y. ^[3]; Raicher, E. ^[3]

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Soreq Research Center (Israel)

The interstellar medium is heterogeneous with dense clouds amid an ambient medium. Radiation from young OB stars asymmetrically irradiate the dense clouds. Bertoldi (1989) developed analytic formulae to describe possible outcomes of these clouds when irradiated by hot, young stars. One of the critical parameters that determines the cloud’s fate is the number of photon mean free paths in the cloud. For the extreme cases where the cloud size is either much greater than or much less than one mean free path, the radiation transport should be well understood. However, as one transitions between these limits, the radiation transport is much more complex and is a challenge to solve with many of the current radiation transport models implemented in codes. In this paper, we present the design of laboratory experiments that use a thermal source of x-rays to asymmetrically irradiate a low-density plastic foam sphere. The experiment will vary the density and hence the number of mean free paths of the sphere to study the radiation transport in different regimes. Finally, we have developed dimensionless parameters to relate the laboratory experiment to the astrophysical system and we show that we can perform the experiment in the same transport regime.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0002956; NA0002719; NA0001944

OSTI ID:: 1454536

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1419546

Journal Information:: High Energy Density Physics, Vol. 22; ISSN 1574-1818

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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