Tailored mesoscopic plasma accelerates electrons exploiting parametric instability

Autor: Rakesh Y Kumar, Ratul Sabui, R Gopal, Feiyu Li, Soubhik Sarkar, William Trickey, M Anand, John Pasley, Z-M Sheng, R M G M Trines, R H H Scott, A P L Robinson, V Sharma, M Krishnamurthy
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 26, Iss 3, p 033027 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ad2ffc
Popis: Laser plasma electron acceleration from the interaction of an intense femtosecond laser pulse with an isolated microparticle surrounded by a low-density gas is studied here. Experiments presented here show that optimized plasma tailoring by introducing a pre-pulse boosts parametric instabilities to produce MeV electron energies and generates electron temperatures as large as 200 keV with the total charge being as high as 350 fC/shot/sr, even at a laser intensity of a few times 10 ^16 Wcm ^−2 . Corroborated by particle-in-cell simulations, these measurements reveal that two plasmon decay in the vicinity of the microparticle is the main contributor to hot electron generation.
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