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Temperature and Kα -yield radial distributions in laser-produced solid-density plasmas imaged with ultrahigh-resolution x-ray spectroscopy

  • U. Zastrau
  • , P. Audebert
  • , V. Bernshtam
  • , E. Brambrink
  • , T. Kämpfer
  • , E. Kroupp
  • , R. Loetzsch
  • , Y. Maron
  • , Yu Ralchenko
  • , H. Reinholz
  • , G. Röpke
  • , A. Sengebusch
  • , E. Stambulchik
  • , I. Uschmann
  • , L. Weingarten
  • , E. Förster
  • Friedrich-Schiller University
  • Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Universität Rostock

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Abstract

We study warm dense matter formed by subpicosecond laser irradiation at several 1019 W/ cm2 of thin Ti foils using x-ray spectroscopy with high spectral (E/ΔE∼15,000) and one-dimensional spatial (Δx=13.5 μm) resolutions. TiKα doublets modeled by line-shape calculations are compared with Abel-inverted single-pulse experimental spectra and provide radial distributions of the bulk-electron temperature and the absolute-photon number Kα yield in the target interiors. A core with ∼40 eV extends homogeneously up to ten times the laser-focus size. The spatial distributions of the bulk-electron temperature and Kα yield are strongly correlated.

Original languageEnglish
Article number026406
JournalPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Volume81
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Feb 2010

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