Measurement of the equation of state of solid-density copper heated with laser-accelerated protons

Phys Rev E. 2017 Mar;95(3-1):031201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.031201. Epub 2017 Mar 13.

Abstract

We present equation of state (EOS) measurements of solid-density copper heated to 5-10 eV. A copper sample was heated isochorically by hydrogen ions accelerated from an adjacent foil by a high intensity pulsed laser, and probed optically. The measured temperature and expansion are compared against simulations using the most up-to-date wide range EOS tables available.