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DrEdwardHill

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Physics

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@article{White:2018:10.1103/PhysRevE.97.063203,
author = {White, S and Irwin, R and Warwick, R and Gribakin, G and Sarri, G and Keenan, FP and Riley, D and Rose, SJ and Hill, E and Ferland, GJ and Han, B and Wang, F and Zhao, G},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.97.063203},
journal = {Physical Review E},
title = {Production of photoionized plasmas in the laboratory using X-ray line radiation},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.063203},
volume = {97},
year = {2018}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB - In this paper we report the experimental implementation of a theoretically proposed technique for creating a photoionized plasma in the laboratory using x-ray line radiation. Using a Sn laser plasma to irradiate an Ar gas target, the photoionization parameter, ξ=4πF/Ne, reached values of order 50ergcms−1, where F is the radiation flux in ergcm−2s−1. The significance of this is that this technique allows us to mimic effective spectral radiation temperatures in excess of 1 keV. We show that our plasma starts to be collisionally dominated before the peak of the x-ray drive. However, the technique is extendable to higher-energy laser systems to create plasmas with parameters relevant to benchmarking codes used to model astrophysical objects.
AU - White,S
AU - Irwin,R
AU - Warwick,R
AU - Gribakin,G
AU - Sarri,G
AU - Keenan,FP
AU - Riley,D
AU - Rose,SJ
AU - Hill,E
AU - Ferland,GJ
AU - Han,B
AU - Wang,F
AU - Zhao,G
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.063203
PY - 2018///
SN - 1539-3755
TI - Production of photoionized plasmas in the laboratory using X-ray line radiation
T2 - Physical Review E
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.063203
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/60189
VL - 97
ER -