Characterization of laser-produced carbon plasmas relevant to laboratory astrophysics
Abstract
Experiments, analytic modeling, and numerical simulations are presented here to characterize carbon plasmas produced by high-intensity (109-1013 W cm-2) lasers relevant to experimental laboratory astrophysics. In the large-scale limit, the results agree well with a self-similar isentropic, adiabatic fluid model. Laser-target simulations, however, show small-scale structure in the velocity distribution of different ion species, which is also seen in experiments. These distributions indicate that most of the plasma energy resides in moderate charge states (C+3–C+4), most of the mass resides in the lowest charge states, and the highest charge states move fastest.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC); Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1467853
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1268440
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0006538; HDTRA1-12-1-0024; NA0001995; 1414591
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Applied Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 120; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-8979
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; polymers; carbon; plasma expansion; plasma diagnostics; astrophysical plasmas; laser ablation; plasma temperature; computer modeling
Citation Formats
Schaeffer, D. B., Bondarenko, A. S., Everson, E. T., Clark, S. E., Constantin, C. G., and Niemann, C. Characterization of laser-produced carbon plasmas relevant to laboratory astrophysics. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4959148.
Schaeffer, D. B., Bondarenko, A. S., Everson, E. T., Clark, S. E., Constantin, C. G., & Niemann, C. Characterization of laser-produced carbon plasmas relevant to laboratory astrophysics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4959148
Schaeffer, D. B., Bondarenko, A. S., Everson, E. T., Clark, S. E., Constantin, C. G., and Niemann, C. Fri .
"Characterization of laser-produced carbon plasmas relevant to laboratory astrophysics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4959148. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1467853.
@article{osti_1467853,
title = {Characterization of laser-produced carbon plasmas relevant to laboratory astrophysics},
author = {Schaeffer, D. B. and Bondarenko, A. S. and Everson, E. T. and Clark, S. E. and Constantin, C. G. and Niemann, C.},
abstractNote = {Experiments, analytic modeling, and numerical simulations are presented here to characterize carbon plasmas produced by high-intensity (109-1013 W cm-2) lasers relevant to experimental laboratory astrophysics. In the large-scale limit, the results agree well with a self-similar isentropic, adiabatic fluid model. Laser-target simulations, however, show small-scale structure in the velocity distribution of different ion species, which is also seen in experiments. These distributions indicate that most of the plasma energy resides in moderate charge states (C+3–C+4), most of the mass resides in the lowest charge states, and the highest charge states move fastest.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4959148},
journal = {Journal of Applied Physics},
number = 4,
volume = 120,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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