Plastic plasma interaction with plasmas with growing atomic number

• Authors: Andrzej Kasperczuk , Tadeusz Pisarczyk , Tomasz Chodukowski , Zofia Kalinowska , Sergey Gus’kov , Nikolai Demchenko , Jiri Ullschmied , Eduard Krousky , Miroslav Pfeifer , Jiri Skala , Daniel Klir , Jozef Kravarik , Pavel Kubes , Jakub Cikhardt , Karel Rezac , Pawel Pisarczyk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper describes the investigation of the influence of target material atomic number (Z) on the laser-produced plasma pressure. For this reason, several target materials representing a wide range of atomic numbers (Z = 3.5 - 73), i.e. plastic (CH), Al, Cu, Ag, and Ta, were used. The results presented show that the plasma pressure decreases with growing atomic number but in a limited range of Z only. For higher Z, starting approximately from Z = 47 (Ag), the plasma pressure becomes constant, as confirmed by interferometric measurements and x-ray plasma imaging.

Keywords

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plasma pressure; plastic plasma; plasma

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 575-579

Dates

published

1 - 5 - 2013

online

28 - 7 - 2013

Contributors

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Andrzej Kasperczuk

• Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 23 Hery St., 00-908, Warsaw, Poland

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Tadeusz Pisarczyk

• Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 23 Hery St., 00-908, Warsaw, Poland

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Tomasz Chodukowski

• Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 23 Hery St., 00-908, Warsaw, Poland

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Zofia Kalinowska

• Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 23 Hery St., 00-908, Warsaw, Poland

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Sergey Gus’kov

• P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of RAS, 53 Leninsky Ave., 119 991, Moscow, Russia

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Nikolai Demchenko

• P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of RAS, 53 Leninsky Ave., 119 991, Moscow, Russia

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Jiri Ullschmied

• Institute of Plasma Physics ASCR, v.v.i., Za Slovankou 3, 182 00, Prague 8, Czech Republic

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Eduard Krousky

• Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i., Na Slovance 2, 182 21, Prague 8, Czech Republic

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Miroslav Pfeifer

• Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i., Na Slovance 2, 182 21, Prague 8, Czech Republic

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Jiri Skala

• Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i., Na Slovance 2, 182 21, Prague 8, Czech Republic

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Daniel Klir

• Czech Technical University in Prague, FEE, Prague, Czech Republic

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Jozef Kravarik

• Czech Technical University in Prague, FEE, Prague, Czech Republic

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Pavel Kubes

• Czech Technical University in Prague, FEE, Prague, Czech Republic

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Jakub Cikhardt

• Czech Technical University in Prague, FEE, Prague, Czech Republic

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Karel Rezac

• Czech Technical University in Prague, FEE, Prague, Czech Republic

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Pawel Pisarczyk

• Warsaw University of Technology, ICS, 15/19 Nowowiejska St., 00-665, Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-013-0218-0