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Cyclotron effects on double layer ion acceleration from laser-irradiated thin foils

Source: Phys. Plasmas 17, 013101 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.3278600

Published 6 January 2010

KEYWORDS and PACS
Keywords
PACS
  • 52.38.Kd
    Laser-plasma acceleration of electrons and ions
  • 52.25.-b
    Plasma properties
  • 52.55.-s
    Magnetic plasma confinement and equilibrium
  • 52.50.Jm
    Plasma production and heating by laser beams
  • 52.40.Kh
    Plasma sheaths
  • YEAR: 2010
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Anamika Sharma,1 C. S. Liu,2 and V. K. Tripathi1
1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi-110016, India
2Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
The effect of an axial magnetic field on laser driven ion acceleration from a thin overdense plasma slab is investigated. The magnetic field modifies the refractive index of the plasma and the axial ponderomotive force. The latter compresses the electrons until the space charge field thus created offsets it. When the foil thickness is just bigger than the length at which this happens, the compressed electrons and a thin ion layer detach from the foil forming a double layer that gets accelerated by the laser radiation pressure force. The optimum thickness of laser foil, Deltas, for maximum acceleration is sensitive to the polarization of the laser pulse. For right circular polarization it increases, while for left circular polarization it decreases with the magnetic field. The ion energy gain is sensitive to a<sub>0</sub><sup>2</sup>omega2/Deltasomega<sub>p</sub><sup>2</sup> (where a0 is the laser field strength, omegap is the plasma frequency, and omega is the laser frequency) and can be tuned by varying the magnetic field. ©2010 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 9 October 2009; accepted 7 December 2009; published 6 January 2010
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