Post shot analysis of plasma conditions of Gold Spheres illuminated by the URLLE Omega laser, as measured via Thomson scattering

Recently there was a follow up to the 2006 campaign to illuminate 1 mm diameter gold spheres using the Omega laser at LLE. The 2013 campaign uses Thomson scattering to diagnose the plasma conditions as a function of time, at various radial positions in the coronal, laser heated, blow-off region. Laser irradiances were 1, 5, and 10 x 10$^{14}$ W/sqcm, usually in a 1 ns pulse duration. Depleted uranium and Ag spheres were also tested. We compare the predictions of plasma conditions using various non-LTE computational models of atomic physics and electron transport (as implemented into the rad-hydro code Lasnex) to this data. The ``high flux model (HFM)'' (DCA atomic physics and non local transport) compares well for some of experiments, while an intermediate model that radiates a bit less total x-ray fluence than the HFM, does better on other experiments.