Published December 30, 1991 | Version v1
Journal article

Time-resolved measurement of x-ray heating in plastic foils irradiated by intense soft-x-ray pulses

  • 1. Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW72BZ (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX110QX (United Kingdom)

Description

Intense, soft-x-ray pulses, generated from separate laser-irradiated converters, were used to irradiate plane plastic foils. The x-ray heating was investigated by measuring the temperature histories of chlorinated tracer layers buried at different depths in the targets. The temperature diagonistic was a time-resolved extreme-UV absorption spectroscopy technique using chlorine L-shell transitions. The temporal temperature profiles were reasonably well reproduced by radiation-hydrocode simulations

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
67
Journal Issue
27
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
3780-3783
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA