Observation of laser driven supercritical radiative shock precursors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

  Bouquet, S ^a   Stehle C ^b   Koenig, M ^c   Chieze J P ^d   Benuzzi Mounaix, A ^c   Batani, D ^e   Leygnac, S ^b   Fleury, X ^a   Merdji, H ^f   Michaut, C ^b   Thais, F ^d,f   Grandjouan, N ^c   Hall, T ^g   Henry, E ^c,e   Malka, V ^c   Lafon, J P J ^h  

^a CEA DIF   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^f CEA SACLAY   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIZATION; IONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; XENON;

NANOSECOND LASERS; PRECURSORS; SHOCK PRECURSORS; SHOCKED GAS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 3042709466     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.225001     Document Type: Article

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