Temperature and Expansion Energy of Laser Produced Plasmas II. Experiments
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- 1 December 1970
- journal article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A
- Vol. 25 (12) , 1815-1822
- https://doi.org/10.1515/zna-1970-1207
Abstract
Experiments on laser produced plasmas with light intensities between 2·1011 and 5·1012 W/cm2 are reported. Measurements of the electron temperature and the expansion energy were performed. In the case of LiD targets the highest temperature observed was 200 eV. Using carbon targets a maximum temperature of 330 eV was measured. The corresponding expansion energies reach values as high as 13 keV. The experimental results are in good agreement with a stationary, hydrodynamic theory. We conclude from our data that in our LiD and C plasmas ions and electrons have the same temperature.Keywords
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