Line broadening of Ne-like xenon as a diagnostic for high-density implosion experiments

Abstract

The broadening of x-ray spectral lines has become an established diagnostic of Ne in high-density plasmas, particularly those of interest in inertial confinement fusion (ICF). Work to date has concentrated mostly on the broadening of K-shell lines in moderate Z (Z∼10–20) ions in plasmas with electron densities up to 1024 cm−3. In this paper we report on calculations of line broadening for Ne-like Xe (Xe44+) appropriate for diagnosis of higher density plasmas with Ne∼1025 cm−3. These calculations have been performed with a recently developed state of the art computer code which treats the ion and electron broadening in the quasi-static and impact approximations, respectively. In this paper, we summarize recent work examining the behavior of the width of the Ne-like Xe 3–2 and 4–2 transitions with electron density. The broadening of the 1s–3p line in H-like Ar and the 1s2–1s3p transition in He-like Ar is also studied in order to benchmark the code used in the calculations.