*Sergey N. Ryazantsev1, Igor Skobelev2, Maksim Sedov2, Sergey Pikuz1, Takafumi Asai3,4, Masato Kanasaki3, Tomoya Yamauchi3, Satoshi Jinno5,13, Masato Ota6,7,14, Syunsuke Egashira6,7, Kentaro Sakai8,14, Takumi Minami4,8, Yuki Abe7,8, Atsushi Tokiyasu9, Hideki Kohri10, Yasuhiro Kuramitsu7,8, Youichi Sakawa7, Yasuhiro Miyasaka4, Kotaro Kondo4, Akira Kon4, Akito Sagisaka4, Koichi Ogura4, Alexander S. Pirozhkov4, Masaki Kando4, Hiromitsu Kiriyama4, Tetsuya Kawachi4, Tatiana A. Pikuz11, Evgeny D. Filippov12, Ryosuke Kodama7, Yuji Fukuda4
(1. HB11 Energy Holdings Pty Ltd.,, 2. Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS, 3. Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University, 4. Kansai Institute for Photon Science (KPSI), National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 5. Nuclear Professional School, The University of Tokyo, 6. Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 7. Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 8. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 9. Research Center for Electron Photon Science, Tohoku University, 10. Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, 11. Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI), Osaka University, 12. Centro de Laseres Pulsados (CLPU), 13. Tono Geoscience Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), 14. National Institute for Fusion Science)
An X-ray spectroscopic approach is described to distinguish the effects of collisional processes and the incident optical field on the ionization state of the plasma generated in a gas cluster target irradiated with PW laser pulses.