Recombination effects in an expanding laser-produced plasma
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 49 (9) , 4688-4693
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.325539
Abstract
The expansion of a laser-produced Be plasma is studied by comparing hydrodynamical model calculations with experimentally measured distributions of each charge state as a function of energy. The plasma is generated with 1–10-J 200-ps pulses from the LPARL Nd-glass laser facility, and the distributions are obtained using a Thomson parabolic spectrograph. The hydrodynamic equations include flux-limited thermal conductivity and collisional-radiative recombination and ionization. For the proper choice of the initial parameters, we obtain qualitative agreement between the model prediction and the experimentally measured distributions.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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