Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006phpl...13h2901r&link_type=abstract
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 13, Issue 8, pp. 082901-082901-5 (2006).
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Plasma Production And Heating By Shock Waves And Compression, Shock Waves And Discontinuities, Laser-Plasma Acceleration Of Electrons And Ions, Emission, Absorption, And Scattering Of Electromagnetic Radiation, Laboratory Studies Of Space- And Astrophysical-Plasma Processes, Magnetohydrodynamics And Plasmas
Scientific paper
This article reports the observation of the dense, collapsed layer produced by a radiative shock in a laboratory experiment. The experiment uses laser irradiation to accelerate a thin layer of solid-density material to above 100 km/s, the first to probe such high velocities in a radiative shock. The layer in turn drives a shock wave through a cylindrical volume of Xe gas (at ~6 mg/cm3). Radiation from the shocked Xe removes enough energy that the shocked layer increases in density and collapses spatially. This type of system is relevant to a number of astrophysical contexts, providing the potential to observe phenomena of interest to astrophysics and to test astrophysical computer codes.
Boehly Tom
Boireau Laurent
Bouquet Serge
Dannenberg Korbie
Drake Paul R.
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