First Detailed Measurements Using X-Ray Line Emission
1975:
LLE made the first detailed measurements of ablation and preheat using x-ray line emission.
Shown here is Fig. 2, from Barukh Yaakobi’s Physical Review Letters manuscript, B. Yaakobi, I. Pelah, and J. Hoose, “Preheat by Fast Electrons in Laser-Fusion Experiments,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 37 13836–839 (1976).