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Cover Picture: Contrib. Plasma Phys. 7/2013
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.201390010
Subject(s) - beryllium , plasma , foil method , laser , wavelength , optics , materials science , radiation , pulse (music) , atomic physics , physics , irradiation , warm dense matter , nuclear physics , detector , composite material
A 250 µm thick high purity beryllium foil is symmetrically irradiated by a total of 20 laser beams at 351 nm wavelength. Each laser carries 480 J in a 1 ns long pulse, the pulses are staggered in time and focussed on a 800 µm diameter focal spot, yielding a flat top intensity profile of 2.4 × 10 14 W/cm 2 for 3 ns on the target surface. The evolution of the mass density is modelled with the radiation‐hydrodynamics code HELIOS as function of the target depth. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)