Measurement of carbon ionization balance in high-temperature plasma mixtures by temporally resolved X-ray scattering

Abstract We have measured carbon ionization balance in a multi-component plasma in the high-temperature, up to fully ionized, regime by spectrally resolved X-ray scattering. In particular, the measurements have been performed in an underdense ( n e ≈ 10 21  cm - 3 ) 0.35- μ m laser-produced plasma, containing a mixture of C, H with Al and Ar impurities, by using time-resolved back-scattered spectra from a 9.0 keV Zn He- α X-ray probe detected with a high-efficiency graphite Bragg crystal coupled to a framing camera. Measured values for the plasma temperature and carbon ionization state as well as impurity concentrations were obtained by fitting the Doppler-broadened and Compton-shifted scattered spectra at various times after the plasma heating with a modified X-ray form factor that includes the full effects of cross-correlation between different species. These data test collisional-radiative and radiation hydrodynamics modeling from cold ( T e ≲ 5  eV) to fully ionized carbon ( T e ∼ 280  eV).

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