ABSTRACT
Thermal conduction or, in more general terms, the energy transport in laserproduced plasma, is related to basic plasma physics in a wide range of parameters, such as density and temperature. This subject is of great interest because it plays a very important role in major applications, such as inertial confinement fusion (ICF), the production of x-ray sources and x-ray lasers. For example, the acceleration of shell targets for ICF relies not only on the energy absorbed by the plasma, but also on the efficient coupling between this energy and the solid shell. In section 9.2 we calculate this efficiency in a simple model.
