Revisit on ion acceleration mechanisms in solid targets driven by intense laser pulses

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Author	Qiao, Bin Shen, Xiaofei He, Hao Xie, Yu Zhang, Hua Zhou, Cangtao Zhu, Shaoping He, Xian-Tu
Copyright Year	2018
Description	Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion The most investigated ion acceleration mechanisms in solid targets driven by intense laser pulses are revisited, including the target normal sheath acceleration (TNSA), radiation pressure acceleration (RPA), hybrid scheme of radiation pressure-sheath acceleration and Coulomb explosion (CE). In these acceleration mechanisms, the competition, between thermal pressure, radiation pressure and electrostatic pressure, decides the acceleration dynamics. Thermal pressure induced by hot electrons dominates TNSA, while RPA is ideally driven by steady radiation pressure and CE is mainly governed by the electrostatic pressure stored in the target. Two dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are performed to display and elucidate this dynamical evolution among different mechanisms by changing the target thickness.
Related Links	http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/aaf18e/pdf
ISSN	07413335
e-ISSN	13616587
DOI	10.1088/1361-6587/aaf18e
Journal	Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	61
Language	English
Publisher	IOP Publishing
Publisher Date	2018-11-16
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Acceleration Mechanisms
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Condensed Matter Physics Nuclear Energy and Engineering