LLE Review Quarterly Report (October - December 2007). Volume 113

Technical Report · Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1190553· OSTI ID:1190553

Zuegel, Jonathan D. ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics

This volume of the LLE Review, covering October–December 2007, features “High-Intensity Laser–Plasma Interactions in the Refluxing Limit,” by P. M. Nilson, W. Theobald, J. Myatt, C. Stoeckl, M. Storm, O. V. Gotchev, J. D. Zuegel, R. Betti, D. D. Meyerhofer, and T. C. Sangster. In this article (p. 1), the authors report on target experiments using the Multi-Terawatt (MTW) Laser Facility to study isochoric heating of solid-density targets by fast electrons produced from intense, short-pulse laser irradiation. Electron refluxing occurs due to target-sheath field effects and contains most of the fast electrons within the target volume. This efficiently heats the solid-density plasma through collisions. X-ray spectroscopic measurements of absolute K_α (x-radiation) photon yields and variations of the K_β/K_α b emission ratio both indicate that laser energy couples to fast electrons with a conversion efficiency of approximately 20%. Bulk electron temperatures of at least 200 eV are inferred for the smallest mass targets.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
• DOE Contract Number: FC52-08NA28302
• OSTI ID: 1190553
• Report Number(s): DOE/SF/19460-804
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English