title: Collision time measurements in a sonoluminescing microplasma with a large plasma parameter.
abstract: The plasma which forms inside of a micron-sized sonoluminescing bubble in water for under a nanosecond has been probed with 3 ns long laser pulses. A comparison of the response to 532 and 1064 nm light indicates that the plasma number density is about 2×10(21)  cm(-3) and that transport properties are dominated by strong screening and correlation effects. The spherical shape, well-defined atomic density, and blackbody temperature make the sonoluminescing plasma a test bed for theories of strongly coupled plasmas. The plasma in this experiment distinguishes between competing theories of strong, intermediate, and weak effective screening.
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
authors: A
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authors: Bataller
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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authors: B
authors: Kappus
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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authors: Camara
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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authors: Putterman