NDLI: Ultrafast collisional ion heating by electrostatic shocks

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Turrell, A. E. Sherlock, M. Rose, S. J.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	High-intensity lasers can be used to generate shockwaves, which have found applications in nuclear fusion, proton imaging, cancer therapies and materials science. Collisionless electrostatic shocks are one type of shockwave widely studied for applications involving ion acceleration. Here we show a novel mechanism for collisionless electrostatic shocks to heat small amounts of solid density matter to temperatures of ∼keV in tens of femtoseconds. Unusually, electrons play no direct role in the heating and it is the ions that determine the heating rate. Ions are heated due to an interplay between the electric field of the shock, the local density increase during the passage of the shock and collisions between different species of ion. In simulations, these factors combine to produce rapid, localized heating of the lighter ion species. Although the heated volume is modest, this would be one of the fastest heating mechanisms discovered if demonstrated in the laboratory.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9905
Starting Page	8905
File Format	PDF
ISSN	20411723
e-ISSN	20411723
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume Number	6
Language	English
Publisher	Nature Pub. Group
Publisher Date	2015-11-13
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Nature Pub. Group
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemistry Physics and Astronomy Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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