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Persistent URL	http://purl.org/net/epubs/work/42498
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Record Id	42498
Title	Full-trajectory diagnosis of laser-driven radiative blast waves in search of thermal plasma Instaiilities
Contributors	AS Moore (AWE), ET Gumbrell (AWE), J Lazarus (Imperial College London), M Hohenberger (Imperial College London), JS Robinson (Imperial College London), RA Smith (Imperial College London), TJA Plant (Ministry Of Defence), DR Symes (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), M Dunne (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
Abstract	Experimental investigations into the dynamics of cylindrical, laser-driven, high-Mach-number shocks are used to study the thermal cooling instability predicted to occur in astrophysical radiative blast waves. A streaked Schlieren technique measures the full blast-wave trajectory on a single-shot basis, which is key for observing shock velocity oscillations. Electron density profiles and deceleration parameters associated with radiative blast waves were recorded, enabling the calculation of important blast-wave parameters including the fraction of radiated energy, epsilon, as a function of time for comparison with radiation-hydrodynamics simulations.
Organisation	CLF , CLF-HPL , STFC
Keywords	52.50.Jm , 52.35.Tc , Physics , 52.72.+v
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Language	English (EN)

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Journal Article	Phys Rev Lett 100 (2008): 055001.	https://doi.org/1…ysRevLett.100.055001		2008