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Jiang K, Huang TW, Li R, Yu MY, Zhuo HB, Wu SZ, Zhou CT, Ruan SC. Branching of High-Current Relativistic Electron Beam in Porous Materials. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:185001. [PMID: 37204906 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.185001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Revised: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Propagation of high-current relativistic electron beam (REB) in plasma is relevant to many high-energy astrophysical phenomena as well as applications based on high-intensity lasers and charged-particle beams. Here, we report a new regime of beam-plasma interaction arising from REB propagation in medium with fine structures. In this regime, the REB cascades into thin branches with local density a hundred times the initial value and deposits its energy 2 orders of magnitude more efficiently than that in homogeneous plasma, where REB branching does not occur, of similar average density. Such beam branching can be attributed to successive weak scatterings of the beam electrons by the unevenly distributed magnetic fields induced by the local return currents in the skeletons of the porous medium. Results from a model for the excitation conditions and location of the first branching point with respect to the medium and beam parameters agree well with that from pore-resolved particle-in-cell simulations.
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- K Jiang
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
- College of Applied Sciences, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
- College of Applied Sciences, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
- College of Applied Sciences, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People's Republic of China
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Gong Z, Hatsagortsyan KZ, Keitel CH. Electron Polarization in Ultrarelativistic Plasma Current Filamentation Instabilities. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:015101. [PMID: 36669225 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.015101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Revised: 10/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Plasma current filamentation of an ultrarelativistic electron beam impinging on an overdense plasma is investigated, with emphasis on radiation-induced electron polarization. Particle-in-cell simulations provide the classification and in-depth analysis of three different regimes of the current filaments, namely, the normal filament, abnormal filament, and quenching regimes. We show that electron radiative polarization emerges during the instability along the azimuthal direction in the momentum space, which significantly varies across the regimes. We put forward an intuitive Hamiltonian model to trace the origin of the electron polarization dynamics. In particular, we discern the role of nonlinear transverse motion of plasma filaments, which induces asymmetry in radiative spin flips, yielding an accumulation of electron polarization. Our results break the conventional perception that quasisymmetric fields are inefficient for generating radiative spin-polarized beams, suggesting the potential of electron polarization as a source of new information on laboratory and astrophysical plasma instabilities.
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- Zheng Gong
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Li R, Huang TW, Ju LB, Yu MY, Zhang H, Wu SZ, Zhuo HB, Zhou CT, Ruan SC. Nanoscale Electrostatic Modulation of Mega-Ampere Electron Current in Solid-Density Plasmas. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:245002. [PMID: 34951809 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.245002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Revised: 06/07/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Transport of high-current relativistic electron beams in dense plasmas is of interest in many areas of research. However, so far the mechanism of such beam-plasma interaction is still not well understood due to the appearance of small time- and space-scale effects. Here we identify a new regime of electron beam transport in solid-density plasma, where kinetic effects that develop on small time and space scales play a dominant role. Our three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations show that in this regime the electron beam can evolve into layered short microelectron bunches when collisions are relatively weak. The phenomenon is attributed to a secondary instability, on the space- and timescales of the electron skin depth (tens of nanometers) and few femtoseconds of strong electrostatic modulation of the microelectron current filaments formed by Weibel-like instability of the original electron beam. Analytical analysis on the amplitude, scale length, and excitation condition of the self-generated electrostatic fields is clearly validated by the simulations.
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- R Li
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
- College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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Romagnani L, Robinson APL, Clarke RJ, Doria D, Lancia L, Nazarov W, Notley MM, Pipahl A, Quinn K, Ramakrishna B, Wilson PA, Fuchs J, Willi O, Borghesi M. Dynamics of the Electromagnetic Fields Induced by Fast Electron Propagation in Near-Solid-Density Media. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 122:025001. [PMID: 30720299 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.025001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2017] [Revised: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The propagation of fast electron currents in near solid-density media was investigated via proton probing. Fast currents were generated inside dielectric foams via irradiation with a short (∼0.6 ps) laser pulse focused at relativistic intensities (Iλ^{2}∼4×10^{19} W cm^{-2} μm^{2}). Proton probing provided a spatially and temporally resolved characterization of the evolution of the electromagnetic fields and of the associated net currents directly inside the target. The progressive growth of beam filamentation was temporally resolved and information on the divergence of the fast electron beam was obtained. Hybrid simulations of electron propagation in dense media indicate that resistive effects provide a major contribution to field generation and explain well the topology, magnitude, and temporal growth of the fields observed in the experiment. Estimations of the growth rates for different types of instabilities pinpoints the resistive instability as the most likely dominant mechanism of beam filamentation.
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- L Romagnani
- LULI-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
- Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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- Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
- Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Horia Hulubei Institute for Nuclear Physics (IFIN-HH), Reactorului Str., 30, Magurele 077126, Bucharest, Romania
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- LULI-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9ST, United Kingdom
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- Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad 502285, India
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- School of Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide SA 5095, Australia
- Department of Medical Physics, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
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- LULI-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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- Institut für Laser-und Plasmaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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- Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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Zhou S, Bai Y, Tian Y, Sun H, Cao L, Liu J. Self-Organized Kilotesla Magnetic-Tube Array in an Expanding Spherical Plasma Irradiated by kHz Femtosecond Laser Pulses. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 121:255002. [PMID: 30608806 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.255002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2018] [Revised: 10/05/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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By using a millijoule kHz femtosecond laser pulse to irradiate a preformed expanding spherical plasma, which is driven by a prepulse with intensity of 1×10^{14} W/cm^{2}, we observe fast-electron-mediated filamentary structures and an accompanying self-organized magnetic-tube array with 2000 T via time-resolved magneto-optical polarization rotation measurements. We reveal that these periodical filamentary structures predominantly originate from ejected energetic electron flows from the inner denser region of the spherical plasma, which will induce the electron Weibel instability and magnetic field organization and amplification in the expanding plasma in 2 ps. These results open new paths to investigate amplification of intense magnetic fields and the radiation signature from gamma-ray bursts just by means of a much smaller and robust experimental platform.
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- Shiyi Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100088, People's Republic of China
- IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, People's Republic of China
- Department of Physics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, People's Republic of China
- Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300000, People's Republic of China
- IFSA Collaborative Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China
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Novel Single-Shot Diagnostics for Electrons from Laser-Plasma Interaction at SPARC_LAB. QUANTUM BEAM SCIENCE 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/qubs1030013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mahdavi M, Khodadadi Azadboni F. The Role of the Collisions on the Weibel Instability Growth Rate in the Fast Ignition Scenario. JOURNAL OF FUSION ENERGY 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s10894-015-9971-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Kitagawa Y, Mori Y, Komeda O, Ishii K, Hanayama R, Fujita K, Okihara S, Sekine T, Satoh N, Kurita T, Takagi M, Watari T, Kawashima T, Kan H, Nishimura Y, Sunahara A, Sentoku Y, Nakamura N, Kondo T, Fujine M, Azuma H, Motohiro T, Hioki T, Kakeno M, Miura E, Arikawa Y, Nagai T, Abe Y, Ozaki S, Noda A. Direct heating of a laser-imploded core by ultraintense laser-driven ions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 114:195002. [PMID: 26024175 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.195002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2013] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A novel direct core heating fusion process is introduced, in which a preimploded core is predominantly heated by energetic ions driven by LFEX, an extremely energetic ultrashort pulse laser. Consequently, we have observed the D(d,n)^{3}He-reacted neutrons (DD beam-fusion neutrons) with the yield of 5×10^{8} n/4π sr. Examination of the beam-fusion neutrons verified that the ions directly collide with the core plasma. While the hot electrons heat the whole core volume, the energetic ions deposit their energies locally in the core, forming hot spots for fuel ignition. As evidenced in the spectrum, the process simultaneously excited thermal neutrons with the yield of 6×10^{7} n/4π sr, raising the local core temperature from 0.8 to 1.8 keV. A one-dimensional hydrocode STAR 1D explains the shell implosion dynamics including the beam fusion and thermal fusion initiated by fast deuterons and carbon ions. A two-dimensional collisional particle-in-cell code predicts the core heating due to resistive processes driven by hot electrons, and also the generation of fast ions, which could be an additional heating source when they reach the core. Since the core density is limited to 2 g/cm^{3} in the current experiment, neither hot electrons nor fast ions can efficiently deposit their energy and the neutron yield remains low. In future work, we will achieve the higher core density (>10 g/cm^{3}); then hot electrons could contribute more to the core heating via drag heating. Together with hot electrons, the ion contribution to fast ignition is indispensable for realizing high-gain fusion. By virtue of its core heating and ignition, the proposed scheme can potentially achieve high gain fusion.
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- Y Kitagawa
- The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Kurematsucho, 1955-1 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202 Japan
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- The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Kurematsucho, 1955-1 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202 Japan
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- The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Kurematsucho, 1955-1 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202 Japan
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- The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Kurematsucho, 1955-1 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202 Japan
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- The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Kurematsucho, 1955-1 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202 Japan
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- The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Kurematsucho, 1955-1 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202 Japan
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- The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Kurematsucho, 1955-1 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202 Japan
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- Hamamatsu Photonics, K. K. Kurematsucho, 1820 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202, Japan
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- Hamamatsu Photonics, K. K. Kurematsucho, 1820 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202, Japan
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- Hamamatsu Photonics, K. K. Kurematsucho, 1820 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202, Japan
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- Hamamatsu Photonics, K. K. Kurematsucho, 1820 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202, Japan
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- Hamamatsu Photonics, K. K. Kurematsucho, 1820 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202, Japan
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- Hamamatsu Photonics, K. K. Kurematsucho, 1820 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202, Japan
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- Hamamatsu Photonics, K. K. Kurematsucho, 1820 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202, Japan
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- Toyota Technical Development Corp., 1-21 Imae, Hanamoto-cho, Toyota, Aichi 470-0334, Japan
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- Institute for Laser Technology, 1-8-4 Utsubo-honmachi, Nishi-ku, Osaka 550-0004, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno 1664 N Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA
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- Advanced Material Engineering Division, TOYOTA Motor Corporation, 1200, Mishuku, Susono, Shizuoka 410-1193, Japan
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- Advanced Material Engineering Division, TOYOTA Motor Corporation, 1200, Mishuku, Susono, Shizuoka 410-1193, Japan
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- Advanced Material Engineering Division, TOYOTA Motor Corporation, 1200, Mishuku, Susono, Shizuoka 410-1193, Japan
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- TOYOTA Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute-cho, Aichi, Japan
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- TOYOTA Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute-cho, Aichi, Japan
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- TOYOTA Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute-cho, Aichi, Japan
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- TOYOTA Central Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., 41-1 Yokomichi, Nagakute-cho, Aichi, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
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- Institute of laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
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- Institute of laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
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- Institute of laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan
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- National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Oroshi Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan
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- Advanced Research Center for Beam Science, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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Fox W, Fiksel G, Bhattacharjee A, Chang PY, Germaschewski K, Hu SX, Nilson PM. Filamentation instability of counterstreaming laser-driven plasmas. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 111:225002. [PMID: 24329452 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.225002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Filamentation due to the growth of a Weibel-type instability was observed in the interaction of a pair of counterstreaming, ablatively driven plasma flows, in a supersonic, collisionless regime relevant to astrophysical collisionless shocks. The flows were created by irradiating a pair of opposing plastic (CH) foils with 1.8 kJ, 2-ns laser pulses on the OMEGA EP Laser System. Ultrafast laser-driven proton radiography was used to image the Weibel-generated electromagnetic fields. The experimental observations are in good agreement with the analytical theory of the Weibel instability and with particle-in-cell simulations.
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- W Fox
- Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA and Fusion Science Center for Extreme States of Matter, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08543, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA and Fusion Science Center for Extreme States of Matter, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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- Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA and Fusion Science Center for Extreme States of Matter, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
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Direct observation of turbulent magnetic fields in hot, dense laser produced plasmas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:8011-5. [PMID: 22566660 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200753109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Turbulence in fluids is a ubiquitous, fascinating, and complex natural phenomenon that is not yet fully understood. Unraveling turbulence in high density, high temperature plasmas is an even bigger challenge because of the importance of electromagnetic forces and the typically violent environments. Fascinating and novel behavior of hot dense matter has so far been only indirectly inferred because of the enormous difficulties of making observations on such matter. Here, we present direct evidence of turbulence in giant magnetic fields created in an overdense, hot plasma by relativistic intensity (10(18) W/cm(2)) femtosecond laser pulses. We have obtained magneto-optic polarigrams at femtosecond time intervals, simultaneously with micrometer spatial resolution. The spatial profiles of the magnetic field show randomness and their k spectra exhibit a power law along with certain well defined peaks at scales shorter than skin depth. Detailed two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations delineate the underlying interaction between forward currents of relativistic energy "hot" electrons created by the laser pulse and "cold" return currents of thermal electrons induced in the target. Our results are not only fundamentally interesting but should also arouse interest on the role of magnetic turbulence induced resistivity in the context of fast ignition of laser fusion, and the possibility of experimentally simulating such structures with respect to the sun and other stellar environments.
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Kitagawa Y, Mori Y, Komeda O, Ishii K, Hanayama R, Fujita K, Okihara S, Sekine T, Satoh N, Kurita T, Takagi M, Kawashima T, Kan H, Nakamura N, Kondo T, Fujine M, Azuma H, Motohiro T, Hioki T, Nishimura Y, Sunahara A, Sentoku Y. Fusion using fast heating of a compactly imploded CD core. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2012; 108:155001. [PMID: 22587260 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.155001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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A compact fast core heating experiment is described. A 4-J 0.4-ns output of a laser-diode-pumped high-repetition laser HAMA is divided into four beams, two of which counterilluminate double-deuterated polystyrene foils separated by 100 μm for implosion. The remaining two beams, compressed to 110 fs for fast heating, illuminate the same paths. Hot electrons produced by the heating pulses heat the imploded core, emitting x-ray radiations >20 eV and yielding some 10(3) thermal neutrons.
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- Y Kitagawa
- The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries, Kurematsuchou, 1955-1 Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-1202 Japan.
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Hao B, Ding WJ, Sheng ZM, Ren C, Zhang J. Plasma thermal effect on the relativistic current-filamentation and two-stream instabilities in a hot-beam warm-plasma system. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2009; 80:066402. [PMID: 20365281 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.80.066402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2009] [Revised: 10/26/2009] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Based on fully kinetic model using drift-Maxwellian distributions and taking into account the transverse electrostatic field (TEF), it is shown that the current-filamentation instability (CFI) grows unexpectedly with the plasma temperature. The growth is attributed to the decreasing of the TEF as the plasma becomes hot. In the low-temperature plasma regime where the TEF is strong, it is identified that the TEF can dominate over the thermal pressure in suppressing the CFI. Since the TEF originates from the temperature difference between the beam and the plasma, the plasma temperature plays a significant role for the development of the CFI and the quasistatic magnetic fields in a hot-beam warm-plasma system. Particle-in-cell simulations verify the above results.
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- Biao Hao
- Beijing National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, CAS, Beijing, China
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Karmakar A, Kumar N, Pukhov A, Polomarov O, Shvets G. Detailed particle-in-cell simulations on the transport of a relativistic electron beam in plasmas. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2009; 80:016401. [PMID: 19658817 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.80.016401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2008] [Revised: 02/26/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We present comprehensive two-dimensional (2D) particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations on the transport of a relativistic electron beam in a plasma in the context of fast ignition fusion. The 2D PIC simulations are performed by constructing two different simulation planes and have shown the complete stabilization and destabilization of the Weibel instability due to the beam temperature and background plasma collisions, respectively. Some three-dimensional PIC simulation results on the filamentary structures are also shown thereby further shedding light on the filamentation of the electron beam in plasmas. The linear growth rates of fastest growing mode in the beam-plasma system are compared with a theoretical model developed and are found in good agreement with each other.
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- Anupam Karmakar
- Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf 40225, Germany.
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Kar S, Robinson APL, Carroll DC, Lundh O, Markey K, McKenna P, Norreys P, Zepf M. Guiding of relativistic electron beams in solid targets by resistively controlled magnetic fields. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2009; 102:055001. [PMID: 19257515 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.055001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Guided transport of a relativistic electron beam in solid is achieved experimentally by exploiting the strong magnetic fields created at the interface of two metals of different electrical resistivities. This is of substantial relevance to the Fast Ignitor approach to fusion energy production [M. Tabak, Phys. Plasmas 12, 057305 (2005)10.1063/1.1871246], since it allows the electron deposition to be spatially tailored-thus adding substantial design flexibility and preventing inefficiencies due to electron beam spreading. In the experiment, optical transition radiation and thermal emission from the target rear surface provide a clear signature of the electron confinement within a high resistivity tin layer sandwiched transversely between two low resistivity aluminum slabs. The experimental data are found to agree well with numerical simulations.
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- S Kar
- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
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Karmakar A, Kumar N, Shvets G, Polomarov O, Pukhov A. Collision-driven negative-energy waves and the weibel instability of a relativistic electron beam in a quasineutral plasma. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 101:255001. [PMID: 19113717 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.255001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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A new model describing the Weibel instability of a relativistic electron beam propagating through a resistive plasma is developed. For finite-temperature beams, a new class of negative-energy magnetosound waves is identified, whose growth due to collisional dissipation destabilizes the beam-plasma system even for high beam temperatures. We perform 2D and 3D particle-in-cell simulations and show that in 3D geometry the Weibel instability persists even for collisionless background plasma. The anomalous plasma resistivity in 3D is caused by the two-stream instability.
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- Anupam Karmakar
- Institut für Theoretische Physik I, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany
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Lancaster KL, Green JS, Hey DS, Akli KU, Davies JR, Clarke RJ, Freeman RR, Habara H, Key MH, Kodama R, Krushelnick K, Murphy CD, Nakatsutsumi M, Simpson P, Stephens R, Stoeckl C, Yabuuchi T, Zepf M, Norreys PA. Measurements of energy transport patterns in solid density laser plasma interactions at intensities of 5x10(20) W cm-2. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2007; 98:125002. [PMID: 17501132 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.125002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2006] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Kalpha x-ray emission, extreme ultraviolet emission, and plasma imaging techniques have been used to diagnose energy transport patterns in copper foils ranging in thickness from 5 to 75 microm for intensities up to 5x10(20) W cm-2. The Kalpha emission and shadowgrams both indicate a larger divergence angle than that reported in the literature at lower intensities [R. Stephens, Phys. Rev. E 69, 066414 (2004)]. Foils 5 microm thick show triple-humped plasma expansion patterns at the back and front surfaces. Hybrid code modeling shows that this can be attributed to an increase in the mean energy of the fast electrons emitted at large radii, which only have sufficient energy to form a plasma in such thin targets.
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- K L Lancaster
- CCLRC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK
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Lei AL, Tanaka KA, Kodama R, Kumar GR, Nagai K, Norimatsu T, Yabuuchi T, Mima K. Optimum hot electron production with low-density foams for laser fusion by fast ignition. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 96:255006. [PMID: 16907316 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.255006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2006] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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We propose a foam cone-in-shell target design aiming at optimum hot electron production for the fast ignition. A thin low-density foam is proposed to cover the inner tip of a gold cone inserted in a fuel shell. An intense laser is then focused on the foam to generate hot electrons for the fast ignition. Element experiments demonstrate increased laser energy coupling efficiency into hot electrons without increasing the electron temperature and beam divergence with foam coated targets in comparison with solid targets. This may enhance the laser energy deposition in the compressed fuel plasma.
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- A L Lei
- Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
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Firpo MC, Lifschitz AF, Lefebvre E, Deutsch C. Early out-of-equilibrium beam-plasma evolution. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 96:115004. [PMID: 16605834 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.115004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2006] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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We solve analytically the out-of-equilibrium initial stage that follows the injection of a radially finite electron beam into a plasma at rest and test it against particle-in-cell simulations. For initial large beam edge gradients and not too large beam radius, compared to the electron skin depth, the electron beam is shown to evolve into a ring structure. For low enough transverse temperatures, the filamentation instability eventually proceeds and saturates when transverse isotropy is reached. The analysis accounts for the variety of very recent experimental beam transverse observations.
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- M-C Firpo
- Laboratoire de Physique et Technologie des Plasmas (CNRS UMR 7648), Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau cedex, France
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Califano F, Del Sarto D, Pegoraro F. Three-dimensional magnetic structures generated by the development of the filamentation (Weibel) instability in the relativistic regime. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 96:105008. [PMID: 16605748 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.105008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2005] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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We present three-dimensional, fully relativistic, fluid simulations of the dynamics of inhomogeneous counter streaming beams with the aim of understanding the magnetic structures that can be expected to form as a consequence of the development of the so-called Weibel instability. Ringlike structures in the transverse direction are generated as a consequence of the development of a spatially resonant mode. We describe the structures generated by beams of equal initial density and velocity and by a fast, less dense beam compensated by a slower, denser beam. We consider these two cases as schematic models of a laser produced beam propagating in a plasma with nearly equal density and in a plasma much denser than the injected beam.
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- F Califano
- Physics Department and CNISM, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Li YT, Sheng ZM, Ma YY, Jin Z, Zhang J, Chen ZL, Kodama R, Matsuoka T, Tampo M, Tanaka KA, Tsutsumi T, Yabuuchi T, Du K, Zhang HQ, Zhang L, Tang YJ. Demonstration of bulk acceleration of ions in ultraintense laser interactions with low-density foams. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2005; 72:066404. [PMID: 16486067 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.72.066404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2004] [Revised: 02/22/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Ion acceleration inside low-density foams irradiated by ultraintense laser pulses has been studied experimentally and theoretically. It is found that the ion generation is closely correlated with the suppressed hot electron transport inside the foams. Particle-in-cell simulations suggest that localized electrostatic fields with multi peaks around the surfaces of lamellar layers inside the foams are induced. These fields inhibit hot electron transport and meanwhile accelerate ions inside the foams, forming a bulk acceleration in contrast to the surface acceleration at the front and rear sides of a thin solid target.
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- Y T Li
- Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China
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