@inproceedings{d2dd4a356b174807b7c550a01b258943,
title = "Proton radiography of a thermal explosion in PBX9501",
abstract = "The understanding of thermal explosions and burn propagation lags that of detonations and shock propagation. Diagnostics such as high energy radiography have been used to image shocks, but have been previously precluded from use in thermal explosions due to their stringent timing requirements: shock propagation can be synchronized to an external diagnostic while thermal explosion can not. This issue is solved by following the evolution of the ignition volume in a thermal explosion and using a laser pulse to provide a temperature jump in that central volume during the final thermal runaway leading to ignition. Thermal explosion experiments have been conducted at the Los Alamos Proton Radiography facility and have yielded images of the evolution of ignition, post-ignition burn propagation, and case failure in a radially confined cylinder of PBX 9501. This paper presents images taken during the hours long quasistatic heating, the final minutes of thermal runaway, and the post ignition burn propagation.",
keywords = "Laser ignition, PBX9501, Thermal explosion",
author = "L. Smilowitz and Henson, {B. F.} and Romero, {J. J.} and Sandstrom, {M. M.} and Asay, {B. W.} and C. Schwartz and A. Saunders and F. Merrill and C. Morris and Murray, {M. M.} and McNeil, {W. V.} and M. Marr-Lyon and Rightley, {P. M.}",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1063/1.2832919",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780735404694",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "1139--1142",
booktitle = "Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 2007",
note = "15th Biennial International Conference of the APS Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter, SCCM 2007 ; Conference date: 24-06-2007 Through 29-06-2007",
}