Figure 12
Predictions by AC4DC (top) and PICLS (Royle et al., 2017 ) (bottom) for the (a) ion fractions and (b) normalized electron density of an XFEL-driven solid Al plasma. Maxwellian fits to low-energy electrons are shown as dashed lines. Both simulations model peak intensities of 1.36 × 1017 W cm−2. In the PICLS simulations, the spatial pulse profile is approximately homogeneous. |