Hohlraum Cover (IMAGE)

University of Rochester

Hohlraum Cover

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To study the pressures created by white dwarf stars, researchers fired nanometer laser light into a hohlraum--a tiny gold cylinder--bathing a 1 mm sample of a carbon-based compound in radiation heated to nearly 3.5 million degrees, at pressures ranging from 100 to 450 million atmospheres.

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Illustration by Mark Meamber/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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