Petapascal Pressure Driven by Fast Isochoric Heating with a Multipicosecond Intense Laser Pulse.
Journal
Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
24 Jan 2020
24 Jan 2020
Historique:
revised:
12
11
2019
received:
27
08
2019
entrez:
8
2
2020
pubmed:
8
2
2020
medline:
8
2
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Fast isochoric laser heating is a scheme to heat matter with a relativistic intensity (>10^{18} W/cm^{2}) laser pulse for producing an ultrahigh-energy-density (UHED) state. We have demonstrated an efficient fast isochoric heating of a compressed dense plasma core with a multipicosecond kilojoule-class petawatt laser and an assistance of externally applied kilotesla magnetic fields for guiding fast electrons to the dense plasma. A UHED state of 2.2 PPa is achieved experimentally with 4.6 kJ of total laser energy that is one order of magnitude lower than the energy used in the conventional implosion scheme. A two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation confirmed that diffusive heating from a laser-plasma interaction zone to the dense plasma plays an essential role to the efficient creation of the UHED state.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32031862
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.035001
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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