Study of the supercritical region in a CO2-laser plasma in the x-ray spectra of multiply charged ions
Akimov A. E., Baranov V. Yu., Borzenko V. L., Kozochkin S. M., Makarov K. N., Malyuta D. D., Satov Yu. A., Skobelev I. Yu., Sobolev S. S., Strel'tsov A. P., Faenov A. Ya.
The profiles of the electron density and the temperature in the supercritical region of a plasma produced by a C02 laser have been measured. A plateau forms on the density profile at q ~ 5 X 1014 W/cm2.