Characterization of relativistic electrons generated by a cone guiding laser pulse

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/21/5/055207

Abstract We demonstrated the interaction of a gold cone target with a femto second (fs) laser pulse above the relativistic intensity of 1.37× 10¹⁸ μm ²W/cm². Relativistic electrons with energy above 2 MeV were observed. A 25%--40% increase of the electron temperature is achieved compared to the case when a plane gold target is used. The electron temperature increase results from the guiding of the laser beam at the tip and the intense quasistatic magnetic field in the cone geometry. The behavior of the relativistic electrons is verified in our 2D-PIC simulations.

Keywords: relativistic electrons gold cone guiding laser electron temperature

Received: 05 September 2011
Revised: 27 April 2012
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PACS:	52.57.-z	(Laser inertial confinement)
	52.38.-r	(Laser-plasma interactions)
	41.75.-i	(Charged-particle beams)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10975121 and 11174259) and the Foundation of National Key Laboratory of Plasma Physics.

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Liu Hong-Jie(刘红杰), Gu Yu-Qiu(谷渝秋), Zhou Wei-Min(周维民), Yu Jin-Qing(余金清), Zhu Bin(朱斌), Wu Yu-Chi(吴玉迟), Shan Lian-Qiang(单连强), Wen Xian-Lun(温贤伦), Li Fang(李芳), Qian Feng(钱凤), Cao Lei-Feng(曹磊峰), Zhang Bao-Han(张保汉), and Zheng Zhi-Jian(郑志坚) Characterization of relativistic electrons generated by a cone guiding laser pulse 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 055207

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