دورية أكاديمية

Diagnosis of fast electron transport by coherent transition radiation

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Diagnosis of fast electron transport by coherent transition radiation
المؤلفون: Yangchun Liu, Xiaochuan Ning, Dong Wu, Tianyi Liang, Peng Liu, Shujun Liu, Xu Liu, Zhengmao Sheng, Wei Hong, Yuqiu Gu, Xiantu He
المصدر: New Journal of Physics, Vol 25, Iss 5, p 053024 (2023)
بيانات النشر: IOP Publishing, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Science
LCC:Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: coherent transition radiation, fast electron transport, laser solid interaction, particle-in-cell simulation, terahertz radiation, Science, Physics, QC1-999
الوصف: Transport of fast electrons in overdense plasmas is of key importance in high energy density physics. However, it is challenging to diagnose the fast electron transport in experiments. In this article, we study coherent transition radiation (CTR) generated by fast electrons on the back surface of the target by using 2D and 3D first-principle particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. In our simulations, aluminum targets of 2.7 g cc ^−1 are simulated in two different situations by using a newly developed high order implicit PIC code. Comparing realistic simulations containing collision and ionization effects, artificial simulations without taking collision and ionization effects into account significantly underestimate the energy loss of electron beams when transporting in the target, which fail to describe the complete characteristics of CTR produced by electron beams on the back surface of the target. Realistic simulations indicate the diameter of CTR increases when the thickness of the target is increased. This is attributed to synergetic energy losses of high flux fast electrons due to Ohm heating and colliding drags, which appear quite significant even when the thickness of the solid target only differs by micrometers. Especially, when the diagnosing position is fixed, we find that the intensity distribution of the CTR is also a function of time, with the diameter increased with time. As the diameter of CTR is related to the speed of electrons passing through the back surface of the target, our finding may be used as a new tool to diagnose the electron energy spectra near the surface of solid density plasmas.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1367-2630
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/acd4de
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/ba985f6ba3c0428895cce716480a58bb
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.ba985f6ba3c0428895cce716480a58bb
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:13672630
DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/acd4de