Prepulse dependence in hard x-ray generation from microdroplets
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1 Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005 (India)
- JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80303 (United States)
- John-von-Neumann Institute for Computing, ZAM, Forschungszentrum, Juelich, D-52425 Germany (Germany)
We report on experiments which show that liquid microdroplets are very efficient in hard x-ray generation. We make a comparative study of hard x-ray emission from 15 {mu}m methanol microdroplets and a plain slab target of similar atomic composition at similar laser intensities. The hard X-ray yield from droplet plasmas is about 35 times more than that obtained from solid plasmas. A prepulse that is about 10ns and at least 2% in intensity of the main pulse is essential for hard x-ray generation from the droplets at about 1015 W cm-2. A hot electron temperature of 36 keV is measured from the droplets at 8 x 1014 W cm-2; three times higher intensity is needed to obtain similar hot electron temperature from solid plasmas that have similar atomic composition. We use 1D-PIC simulation to obtain qualitative correlation to the experimental observations.
- OSTI ID:
- 20798494
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 827, Issue 1; Conference: 3. international conference on superstrong fields in plasmas, Varenna (Italy), 19-24 Sep 2005; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2195241; (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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