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SCIENCE
Volume 322, Issue 5898, Pages 69-71Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161466
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- DOE grant
- NA-16 Intermediate Facility Initiative [08-ERI-002, grant 08-LW-004]
- Lawrence Scholar Program fellowship
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Spectrally resolved scattering of ultrafast K-alpha x- rays has provided experimental validation of the modeling of the compression and heating of shocked matter. The elastic scattering component has characterized the evolution and coalescence of two shocks launched by a nanosecond laser pulse into lithium hydride with an unprecedented temporal resolution of 10 picoseconds. At shock coalescence, we observed rapid heating to temperatures of 25,000 kelvin when the scattering spectra show the collective plasmon oscillations that indicate the transition to the dense metallic plasma state. The plasmon frequency determines the material compression, which is found to be a factor of 3, thereby reaching conditions in the laboratory relevant for studying the physics of planetary formation.
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