Opacity effects in a solid-density aluminium plasma created by photo-excitation with an X-ray laser

High Energy Density Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-69

  Rackstraw, D S ^a   Vinko, S M ^a   Ciricosta, O ^a   Cho, B I ^b,m   Engelhorn, K ^c   Chung, H K ^d   Brown, C R D ^e   Burian, T ^f   Chalupsky J ^f   Falcone, R W ^c,g   Graves, C ^h   Hajkova V ^f   Higginbotham, A ^a   Juha, L ^f   Krzywinski, J ^h   Lee, H J ^h   Messerschmidt, M ^h   Murphy, C ⁱ   Ping, Y ^j   Scherz, A ^h   Schlotter, W ^h   Toleikis, S ^k   Turner, J J ^h   Vysin, L ^f   Wang, T ^h   Wu, B ^h   Zastrau, U ^l   Zhu, D ^h   Nagler, B ^h   Lee, R W ^g   Heimann, P A ^h   Wark, J S ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^e AWE   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^j LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^k DESY   (Germany)

^l FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^m Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

more..

Author keywords

Opacity; X ray laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897873190     PISSN: 15741818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hedp.2014.02.003     Document Type: Article

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