Development of intense point x-ray sources for backlighting high energy density experiments (invited)

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 10 II, 2004, Pages 3915-3920

  Workman, J ^a   Fincke, J R ^a   Keiter, P ^a   Kyrala, G A ^a   Pierce, T ^a   Sublett, S ^b   Knauer, J P ^b   Robey, H ^c   Blue, B ^c   Glendinning, S G ^c   Landen, O L ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-ENERGY-DENSITY (HED) EXPERIMENTS; PINHOLE-APERTURED POINT BACKLIGHTER (PAPBL); X-RAY BACKLIGHTING; X-RAY ENERGIES;

ALDEHYDES; ASSEMBLY; ASTROPHYSICS; FLUORESCENCE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; RADIOGRAPHY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; X RAYS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 9944253024     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1789248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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