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Intense ion beams as a tool for opacity measurements in warm dense matter

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Opacity measurements in warm dense matter (WDM) provide a valuable benchmark for the diverging theoretical models in this regime. Heating of thin foils with intense heavy-ion beams allows one to create isolated samples of warm dense matter suitable for experimental determination of frequency-dependent opacities. A prerequisite for the measurements is the isothermal expansion of the heated foil. Hydrodynamic simulations predict that this condition is fulfilled. The analysis shows that existing ion-beam accelerators are capable to contribute to this field of research.

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  1. University of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    An. Tauschwitz, J. Jacoby & J. A. Maruhn

  2. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia

    V. G. Novikov

  3. Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany

    A. Tauschwitz & E. Onkels

  4. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

    F. B. Rosmej

  5. Centre de Recherche LULI, Ecole Polytechnique, PAPD, Palaiseau, France

    F. B. Rosmej

  6. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

    J. Abdallah

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Tauschwitz, A., Novikov, V.G., Tauschwitz, A. et al. Intense ion beams as a tool for opacity measurements in warm dense matter. Appl. Phys. B 95, 13–16 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3444-9

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