Demonstration of imaging X-ray Thomson scattering on OMEGA EP

Foams are a common material for high-energy-density physics experiments because of low, tunable densities, and being machinable. Simulating these experiments can be difficult because the equation of state is largely unknown for shocked foams. The focus of this experiment was to develop an x-ray scat...

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Veröffentlicht in:Review of scientific instruments 2016-11, Vol.87 (11), p.11E550-11E550
Hauptverfasser: Belancourt, Patrick X., Theobald, Wolfgang, Keiter, Paul A., Collins, Tim J. B., Bonino, Mark J., Kozlowski, Pawel M., Regan, Sean P., Drake, R. Paul
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Zusammenfassung:Foams are a common material for high-energy-density physics experiments because of low, tunable densities, and being machinable. Simulating these experiments can be difficult because the equation of state is largely unknown for shocked foams. The focus of this experiment was to develop an x-ray scattering platform for measuring the equation of state of shocked foams on OMEGA EP. The foam used in this experiment is resorcinol formaldehyde with an initial density of 0.34 g/cm3. One long-pulse (10 ns) beam drives a shock into the foam, while the remaining three UV beams with a 2 ns square pulse irradiate a nickel foil to create the x-ray backlighter. The primary diagnostic for this platform, the imaging x-ray Thomson spectrometer, spectrally resolves the scattered x-ray beam while imaging in one spatial dimension. Ray tracing analysis of the density profile gives a compression of 3 ± 1 with a shock speed of 39 ± 6 km/s. Analysis of the scattered x-ray spectra gives an upper bound temperature of 20 eV.
ISSN:0034-6748
1089-7623
DOI:10.1063/1.4962870