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Christina Back
Researcher at General Atomics
Publications - 125
Citations - 2995
Christina Back is an academic researcher from General Atomics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Laser & Plasma. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 125 publications receiving 2733 citations. Previous affiliations of Christina Back include Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Characterization of SiC–SiC composites for accident tolerant fuel cladding
Christian P. Deck,George M. Jacobsen,Sheeder Jonathan David,O. Gutierrez,Zhang Jiping,Joshua Stone,H.E. Khalifa,Christina Back +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, mechanical and thermal properties of unirradiated, as-fabricated SiC-based cladding structures were measured, and permeability and dimensional control were assessed.
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Laser–plasma interactions in ignition‐scale hohlraum plasmas
B. J. MacGowan,Bedros Afeyan,Christina Back,Richard Berger,Guy Bonnaud,M. Casanova,Bruce I. Cohen,D. E. Desenne,D. F. DuBois,A. G. Dulieu,Kent Estabrook,Juan C. Fernández,Siegfried Glenzer,D. E. Hinkel,T. B. Kaiser,Daniel H. Kalantar,Robert L. Kauffman,R. K. Kirkwood,William L. Kruer,A. B. Langdon,Barbara F. Lasinski,D. S. Montgomery,J. D. Moody,D. H. Munro,L. V. Powers,H. A. Rose,Christophe Rousseaux,Robert Turner,Bernhard H. Wilde,Scott Wilks,E. A. Williams +30 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the scattering of laser light by SBS and SRS as a function of beam smoothing and plasma conditions in the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
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X-ray backlighting for the National Ignition Facility (invited)
Otto Landen,D. R. Farley,S. G. Glendinning,L. M. Logory,P. M. Bell,J. A. Koch,F. D. Lee,D. K. Bradley,Daniel H. Kalantar,Christina Back,R. E. Turner +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, a backlit-pinhole point-projection technique, pinhole and slit arrays, distributed polychromatic sources, and picket-fence backlighters are presented.
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Absorption experiments on x-ray-heated mid-Z constrained samples.
Ted Perry,P. T. Springer,D. F. Fields,D. R. Bach,F. J. D. Serduke,Carlos A. Iglesias,Forrest J. Rogers,J. K. Nash,M. H. Chen,Brian G. Wilson,William H. Goldstein,B. Rozsynai,R. A. Ward,J. D. Kilkenny,R. Doyas,L. B. Da Silva,Christina Back,R. C. Cauble,S. J. Davidson,John Foster,C.C. Smith,A. Bar-Shalom,Richard W. Lee +22 more
TL;DR: Results of a niobium absorption experiment are presented that represent a major step in the development of techniques necessary for the quantitative characterization of hot, dense matter.
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Charged-Particle Probing of X-ray–Driven Inertial-Fusion Implosions
Chikang Li,Fredrick Seguin,Johan Frenje,Michael A. Rosenberg,R. D. Petrasso,Peter Amendt,J. A. Koch,Otto Landen,H. S. Park,Harry Robey,Richard Town,Alexis Casner,F. Philippe,Riccardo Betti,J. P. Knauer,D. D. Meyerhofer,Christina Back,J. D. Kilkenny,Abbas Nikroo +18 more
TL;DR: The views of the spatial structure and temporal evolution of both the laser drive in a hohlraum and implosion properties provide essential insight into, and modeling validation of, x-ray–driven implosions.