https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2003-00010-4
Production of high quality shocks for equation of state experiments
1
Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Occhialini”, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and INFM, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
2
Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, 85740 Garching, Germany
3
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO 3SQ, UK
4
Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI) (UMR 7605) , CNRS-CEA-X-Paris VI, École Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
Corresponding author: a batani@mib.infn.it
Received:
17
June
2002
Published online:
21
January
2003
In this paper we describe the quality requirements that a shock wave must fulfil to make equation of state (EOS) measurements possible: planarity, no-preheating and stationarity of the shock. Experimental measurements have been performed at the Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik (Garching). We also present simple analytical models that allow to verify shock stationarity and absence of preheating.
PACS: 52.50.Jm – Plasma production and heating by laser beams (laser-foil, laser-cluster, etc.) / 52.35.Tc – Shock waves and discontinuities
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2003
