Radiation induced acceleration of ions

2019/07/04 by E. G. Gelfer, A. M. Fedotov, Gelfer, Evgeny +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics #Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.02621

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Abstract

Radiation friction can have a substantial impact on electron dynamics in a transparent target exposed to a strong laser pulse. In particular, by modifying quiver electron motion, it can strongly enhance the longitudinal charge separation field, thus stimulating ion acceleration. We present a model and simulation results for such a radiation induced ion acceleration and study the scalings of the maximal attainable and average ion energies with respect to the laser and target parameters. We also compare the performance of this mechanism to the conventional ones.

Citations

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