Ultra-power shock wave driven by a laser-accelerated electron beam

This review is presented on modern research to achieve in a laboratory experiment the new level of shock-wave pressure of a few hundred or even thousands of Mbar when a substance is exposed to a stream of laser-accelerated fast electrons. The applications associated with the use of ultra-power shock...

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Published in:Physica scripta 2015-07, Vol.90 (7), p.74002-8
Main Author: Gus'kov, S Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ablation pressure
Electron beams
equation of state
Exposure
fast electrons
Ignition
Inertial
Laboratories
Mathematical analysis
shock ignition
shock wave
Shock waves
Streams
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Summary:This review is presented on modern research to achieve in a laboratory experiment the new level of shock-wave pressure of a few hundred or even thousands of Mbar when a substance is exposed to a stream of laser-accelerated fast electrons. The applications associated with the use of ultra-power shock waves as the ignition driver of inertial fusion targets as well as the tool in studying the equation of a state of a matter are discussed.
ISSN:0031-8949
1402-4896
DOI:10.1088/0031-8949/90/7/074002