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Electrostatic fields and charged particle acceleration in laser produced plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Heinrich Hora
Heinrich Hora
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia
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Abstract

While the action of electrostatic double layers in the periphery of an expanding laser produced plasma has been discussed and treated many years ago, some new aspects pioneered recently by Alfvén in the theory of cosmic plasmas, indicate the possibility of a new treatment. The thermally produced electrostatic double layer which has been re-derived for a homogeneous plasma shows that a strong upshift of ion energies (by the mass ratio) is possible, in agreement with experiments. The number of accelerated ions is many orders of magnitude smaller than observed at keV and MeV energies. The nonlinear force acceleration could explain the number and energy of the observed fast ions. It is shown, however, that electrostatic double layers can be generated which should produce super-fast ions. This paper presents a derivation of the spread double layers in the case of inhomogeneous plasmas. It is concluded that the hydrodynamically expected multi GeV heavy ions for 10TW laser pulses (generated by relativistic self-focussing and nonlinear forces) should produce super-fast ions up to the TeV range. Further conclusions are drawn from the electrostatically measured upshifted (by 300 keV) DT fusion alphas from laser compressed plasma. An analysis of alpha spectra attempts to distinguish between different models of the stopping power in the plasmas. The analysis preliminarily arrives at a preference for the collective model.

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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , May 1983 , pp. 151 - 170
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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