S- and p-polarized reflectivities of strongly correlated plasma

Abstract

Abstract An analysis of the response of a dense plasma to electromagnetic waves of moderate intensity can be used as a tool to study the validity of physical models describing the behavior of matter in extreme conditions. Within this work, the new experimental data are presented on oblique incidence of polarized electromagnetic wave. The study of polarized reflectivity properties of nonideal xenon plasma was accomplished using laser light at νlas = 2.83 × 1014 s−1. The measurements of polarized reflectivity coefficients of explosively driven dense plasmas have been carried out at incident angles up to θ = 70° for plasma density ρ = 1.8 g/cm3. The simple model of the ionization kinetics of the plasma transition region is considered.