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C.C. Smith

Researcher at Atomic Weapons Establishment

Publications -  13
Citations -  565

C.C. Smith is an academic researcher from Atomic Weapons Establishment. The author has contributed to research in topics: Opacity & Absorption spectroscopy. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 13 publications receiving 550 citations.

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Investigation of the opacity of hot, dense aluminum in the region of its K edge

TL;DR: In this paper, point projection spectroscopy was used to perform opacity measurements on hot, dense plasmas generated by using the x rays emitted from a laser-produced gold plasma to heat an aluminum sample.
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L-shell absorption spectrum of an open-M-shell germanium plasma: Comparison of experimental data with a detailed configuration-accounting calculation.

TL;DR: The radiative opacity of a near local thermodynamic equilibrium, open-M-shell Ge plasma has been measured and is compared for the first time with the results of a detailed configurafion-accounting calculation which includes an approximate treatment of term widths.
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Rapid heating of solid density material by a petawatt laser

TL;DR: In this article, time-resolved x-ray spectra from solid targets irradiated by the VULCAN Petawatt laser focused to 1020Wcm−2 show that material at solid density is heated to temperatures above 500 eV to a depth of about 15 μm and for a duration of more than 30 ps.
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Quantitative measurement of mid-z opacities

TL;DR: In this paper, a general discussion of the experimental technique is given showing the requirements that must be met in order to extract quantitative transmission data and the resulting spectrally resolved absorption measurements can then be used to test the capabilities of LTE opacity codes.