Experimental verification of TNSA protons and deuterons in the multi-picosecond moderate intensity regime

Park, J.; Kim, J.; Cochran, G.; Mariscal, D.; Simpson, R. A.; Zylstra, A.; Ma, T.

doi:10.1063/5.0085300

Title: Experimental verification of TNSA protons and deuterons in the multi-picosecond moderate intensity regime

Journal Article · Thu Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0085300· OSTI ID:1876961

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Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Ion acceleration from high intensity short pulse laser interactions is of great interest due to a number of applications, and there has been significant work carried out with laser energies up to a few 100 J with 10's of femtosecond to 1 ps pulse durations. Here, we report results from an experiment at the OMEGA EP laser, where laser energy and pulse length were varied from 100 to 1250 J and 0.7–30 ps, respectively, in the moderate (2 × 10¹⁷–2 × 10¹⁸ W/cm²) laser intensity regime. Ions and electrons were simultaneously measured from disk targets made of CH and CD by a Thomson parabola and a magnetic spectrometer, respectively. Measurements showed that the electron temperature, T_e (MeV), has a dependence on the laser energy, E_L (J), and pulse duration, τ_L (ps), and its empirical scaling was found to be 0.015 × E_L^0.90τ_L–0.48. The maximum proton and deuteron energies are linearly dependent on the electron temperature, (5.60 ± 0.26) × T_e and (3.17 ± 0.18) × T_e, respectively. A significant increase in proton numbers with the laser energy was also observed. Furthermore, the increase in the maximum proton energy and proton count with higher energy longer duration pulses presented in this article shows that such laser conditions have a great advantage for applications, such as the proton radiograph, in the moderate laser intensity regime.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344; 17-ERD-039; SCW1651

OSTI ID:: 1876961

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1871756

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-830475; 1046341; TRN: US2307350

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 29, Issue 6; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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