Abstract
A hydrodynamic model is formulated that describes the formation of clusters in atomic gas jets expanding into vacuum, which are used as laser plasma targets. Detailed model calculations performed for an argon gas jet describe spatial distributions of the density of gas and cluster phases formed in the Laval nozzle at room temperature in a broad range of entrance gas pressures. The cluster density distribution is significantly inhomogeneous. The cluster distribution features revealed by the model calculations were qualitatively confirmed by the X-ray spectroscopic measurements of the spatial distribution of emission from the plasma created in the jet tar-gets by high-power ultrashort laser pulses.
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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 73, No. 10, 2001, pp. 583–587.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2001 by Boldarev, Gasilov, Blasco, Stenz, Dorchies, Salin, Faenov, Pikuz, Magunov, Skobelev.