B A Hobbs, D C Mayes, R F Heeter, P A Bradley, E C Dutra, C J Fontes, E Gallardo-Diaz, M Hohenberger, H M Johns, Y P Opachich, H F Robey, S Stoupin, M S Wallace, L G Webster, M H Montgomery, T S Perry, D E Winget
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Abstract
X-ray opacity measurements on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) are in the process of reproducing earlier measurements from the Sandia Z Facility, in particular for oxygen and iron plasmas. These measurements have the potential to revise our understanding of the "solar problem" and of the hot degenerate Q class white dwarf structure by probing plasma conditions near the base of their convection zones. Accurate opacity measurements using soft x-ray Bragg crystal spectrometers require correction for higher-order diffraction effects. Extending prior work in this area [Dutra et al., Review of Scientific Instruments 93, 113527 (2022)], we have developed a new method to remove higher-order spectral components from NIF opacity spectrometer data. By modeling absorption and backlighting continuum spectra and subtracting the second- and third-order components from the measured data, we are able to perform this correction while avoiding imprinting first-order model line features onto the data.
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