Rosseland mean opacity of a high-Z mixture plasma

An eight-beam 0.351-mum laser with pulse duration of about 1.0ns and energy of 260 J per beam was injected into a cylindrical cavity to generate intense x-ray radiation on the Shengguang II high power laser facility. A mixture foil of gold and gadolinium and a gold foil were attached on portion of a diagnostic hole in the mid-plane of the cavity and ablated by the intense x-ray radiation. The propagating time of the radiation heat wave in the mixture and the pure gold foil were measured with soft-x-ray spectrometer and by adopting space- and time-resolved measurement technology, respectively. The results show that the mixture of gold and gadolinium has higher Rosseland mean opacity than the gold sample in our experiment.