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Measurements of Ionic Structure in Shock Compressed Lithium Hydride from Ultrafast X-Ray Thomson Scattering

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In this paper, the first ultrafast temporally, spectrally, and angularly resolved x-ray scattering measurements from shock-compressed matter were presented, where the experimental spectra yield the absolute elastic and inelastic scattering intensities from the measured density of free electrons.
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We present the first ultrafast temporally, spectrally, and angularly resolved x-ray scattering measurements from shock-compressed matter. The experimental spectra yield the absolute elastic and inelastic scattering intensities from the measured density of free electrons. Laser-compressed lithium-hydride samples are well characterized by inelastic Compton and plasmon scattering of a K-alpha x-ray probe providing independent measurements of temperature and density. The data show excellent agreement with the total intensity and structure when using the two-species form factor and accounting for the screening of ion-ion interactions.

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Observations of Continuum Depression in Warm Dense Matter with X-Ray Thomson scattering

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Energy relaxation in dense, strongly coupled two-temperature plasmas.

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Analysis of Thomson scattering from nonequilibrium plasmas.

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Dynamic structure factor in warm dense beryllium

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors calculate the dynamic structure factor (DSF) in warm dense beryllium by means of ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, and compare these with perturbative treatments such as the Born-Mermin approximation.
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The physics basis for ignition using indirect-drive targets on the National Ignition Facility

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Interiors of Giant Planets Inside and Outside the Solar System

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Observations of plasmons in warm dense matter.

TL;DR: The forward scattering spectra of a laser-produced narrow-band x-ray line from isochorically heated beryllium show that the plasmon frequency is a sensitive measure of the electron density.
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HELIOS-CR – A 1-D radiation-magnetohydrodynamics code with inline atomic kinetics modeling

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