Author : Kelly Vivian Cone
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ISBN 13 : 9781267967862
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (678 download)
Book Synopsis Time-resolved Spectroscopy Through Laser-heated Copper Foils by : Kelly Vivian Cone
Download or read book Time-resolved Spectroscopy Through Laser-heated Copper Foils written by Kelly Vivian Cone and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumetric heating of a thin copper target has been studied with time resolved x-ray spectroscopy. The copper target was heated by a plasma produced using the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Compact Multipulse Terawatt (COMET) laser. A variable spaced grating spectrometer coupled to an x-ray streak camera measured soft x-ray emission (800 - 1450 eV) from the back of the copper target to characterize the bulk heating of the target. Radiation hydrodynamic simulations were modeled in 2-dimensions using the HYDRA code. The target conditions calculated by HYDRA were post-processed with the atomic kinetics code CRETIN to generate synthetic emission spectra. A comparison between the experimental and simulated spectra indicates the presence of specific ionization states of copper and the corresponding electron temperatures and ion densities throughout the laser-heated copper target.