Quick Shot
Cone-in-Shell Target
August 15, 2011
This target, with a plastic spherical shell of diameter 860 µm, and a gold cone with an opening diameter of 3.5 mm, is used to study the Rayleigh–Taylor instability in spherical implosions. During the experiment, the shell is imaged by x-ray radiography using a Tantalum-foil backlighter irradiated by six OMEGA beams. The shell is doped with silicon of various concentrations to investigate the effect of radiation preheating on the dynamics of laser-imprinted perturbations.