Christina Back

TL;DR: In this article, the electron temperature in laser-produced gold plasmas was measured with a flat gold disk target with one laser beam of the Nova laser facility at an angle of 64° from the normal.

TL;DR: In this article, four different shear test methods (i.e., doubled notched shear, asymmetrical four point bend test, Iosipescu test, and torsion test) were investigated for their ability to evaluate one standard SiC to SiC ceramic brittle joint while using small size specimens.

TL;DR: In this paper, a flat disk coated with multiple alternate thin layers of gold and beryllium was irradiated with one laser beam of the Nova laser facility and the resulting two ion species plasma was probed with a second laser beam at a distance of 500 μm with time-resolved spectroscopy of the Thomson scattered light.

TL;DR: An experiment performed at the Nova laser facility, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in which x rays, produced by a gold burn-through foil, heated an 1800-A boron nitride (BN) foil, reveals both current strengths and inadequacies in modeling hot dense matter.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Hyades and Helios simulation tools, and the Cretin atomic kinetics code to model low-density SiO 2 aerogel carriers doped with trace amounts of Ti and subjected to high-energy pulsed laser irradiation.