Nature Communications (May 2016)
Measurements of continuum lowering in solid-density plasmas created from elements and compounds
- O. Ciricosta,
- S. M. Vinko,
- B. Barbrel,
- D. S. Rackstraw,
- T. R. Preston,
- T. Burian,
- J. Chalupský,
- B. I. Cho,
- H. -K. Chung,
- G. L. Dakovski,
- K. Engelhorn,
- V. Hájková,
- P. Heimann,
- M. Holmes,
- L. Juha,
- J. Krzywinski,
- R. W. Lee,
- S. Toleikis,
- J. J. Turner,
- U. Zastrau,
- J. S. Wark
Affiliations
- O. Ciricosta
- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
- S. M. Vinko
- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
- B. Barbrel
- Physics Department, UC Berkeley
- D. S. Rackstraw
- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
- T. R. Preston
- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
- T. Burian
- Institute of Physics ASCR
- J. Chalupský
- Institute of Physics ASCR
- B. I. Cho
- Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
- H. -K. Chung
- Atomic and Molecular Data Unit, Nuclear Data Section, IAEA
- G. L. Dakovski
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- K. Engelhorn
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- V. Hájková
- Institute of Physics ASCR
- P. Heimann
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- M. Holmes
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- L. Juha
- Institute of Physics ASCR
- J. Krzywinski
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- R. W. Lee
- Department of Physics, University of California
- S. Toleikis
- Deutsches-Elektronensynchrotron DESY
- J. J. Turner
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- U. Zastrau
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- J. S. Wark
- Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11713
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
The effect of dense plasma environment on the energy levels of an ion is usually described in terms of a lowering of its continuum level. Here the authors present an isochoric-heating experiment to measure and compare continuum lowering in single-species and mixture plasmas to provide insights for models.
