An integrated platform for characterizing laser-driven, isochorically-heated plasmas with 1-$μ$m spatial resolution

Cameron H Allen, Matthew Oliver, Laurent Divol, Otto L Landen, Yuan Ping, Markus Schoelmerich, Russell Wallace, Robert Earley, Wolfgang Theobald, Thomas G White, Tilo Doeppner

Published 2021-11-08Version 1

Warm dense matter is a region of phase space that is of high interest to multiple scientific communities ranging from astrophysics to inertial confinement fusion. Further understanding of the conditions and properties of this complex state of matter necessitates experimental benchmarking of the current theoretical models. Benchmarking of transport properties like conductivity and diffusivity has been scarce because they are small and slow processes that require micron-level resolution to see. We discuss development of a radiography platform designed to allow for measurement of these properties at large laser facilities such as the OMEGA Laser.