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Experimental investigation of fast electron transport in solid density matter: Recent results from a new technique of X-ray energy-encoded 2D imaging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2009

L. Labate ,
E. Förster ,
A. Giulietti ,
D. Giulietti ,
S. Höfer ,
T. Kämpfer ,
P. Köster ,
M. Kozlova ,
T. Levato  and
R. Lötzsch
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L. Labate*
Affiliation:
Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory, IPCF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati, Italy
E. Förster
Affiliation:
Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
A. Giulietti
Affiliation:
Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory, IPCF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy
D. Giulietti
Affiliation:
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati, Italy Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Pisa, Italy
S. Höfer
Affiliation:
Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
T. Kämpfer
Affiliation:
Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
P. Köster
Affiliation:
Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory, IPCF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy
M. Kozlova
Affiliation:
Department of X-ray Lasers, PALS Centre-Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
T. Levato
Affiliation:
Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory, IPCF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati, Italy
R. Lötzsch
Affiliation:
Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
A. Lübcke
Affiliation:
Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
T. Mocek
Affiliation:
Department of X-ray Lasers, PALS Centre-Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
J. Polan
Affiliation:
Department of X-ray Lasers, PALS Centre-Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
B. Rus
Affiliation:
Department of X-ray Lasers, PALS Centre-Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
I. Uschmann
Affiliation:
Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
F. Zamponi
Affiliation:
Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany
L.A. Gizzi
Affiliation:
Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory, IPCF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Italy Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati, Italy
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: L. Labate, Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory, IPCF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy. E-mail: luca.labate@ipcf.cnr.it
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Abstract

The development activity of a new experimental technique for the study of the fast electron transport in high density matter is reported. This new diagnostic tool enables the X-ray 2D imaging of ultrahigh intensity laser plasmas with simultaneous spectral resolution in a very large energy range to be obtained. Results from recent experiments are discussed, in which the electron propagation in multilayer targets was studied by using the Kα. In particular, results highlighting the role of anisotropic Bremsstrahlung are reported, for the sake of the explanation of the capabilities of the new diagnostics. A discussion of a test experiment conceived to extend the technique to a single-shot operation is finally given.

Keywords

Anisotropic BremsstrahlungFast electron diagnosticsFast electron transportHigh-density matterRelativistic electrons
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Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 643 - 649
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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