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Particle simulation of acceleration of quasineutral plasma blocks by short laser pulses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2006

O. KLIMO  and
J. LIMPOUCH
O. KLIMO
Affiliation:
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Praha, Czech Republic
J. LIMPOUCH
Affiliation:
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Praha, Czech Republic
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Abstract

Acceleration of quasineutral plasma blocks by ponderomotive force induced by normally incident short laser pulse is studied here via 1D3V Particle-In-Cell (PIC) simulations. Very high current densities 109–1011 Acm−2 of accelerated ions are observed for maximum laser intensities in the range 1016–1018 Wcm−2 on solid hydrogen target. Ion acceleration process is traced here via evolution of ion density and of ion velocity distribution. Basic parameters of the accelerated plasma blocks are determined from temporally integrated ion distributions. Our results provide more detailed information than the previous analytical estimates (Hora, 2003) and the two-fluid 1D hydrodynamic simulations (Glowacz et al., 2004).

Keywords

Acceleration of plasma blocksFast ion generationPIC simulationShort-pulse laser-target interaction
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Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 107 - 112
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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