Quenching of the Nonlocal Electron Heat Transport by Large External Magnetic Fields in a Laser-Produced Plasma Measured with Imaging Thomson Scattering

doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.135001

Title: Quenching of the Nonlocal Electron Heat Transport by Large External Magnetic Fields in a Laser-Produced Plasma Measured with Imaging Thomson Scattering

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We present a direct measurement of the quenching of nonlocal heat transport in a laser-produced plasma by applying large external magnetic fields (>10 T). The temporally resolved Thomson-scattering measurements of the electron temperature profile show that the heat front propagation transverse to a high-power laser beam is slowed resulting in extremely strong local heating. We find agreement with hydrodynamic modeling when including a magnetic field model that self-consistently evolves the fields in the plasma.

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Froula, D. H.; Ross, J. S.; Pollock, B. B.; Davis, P.; James, A. N.; Divol, L.; Edwards, M. J.; Offenberger, A. A.; Price, D.; Town, R. P. J.; Tynan, G. R.; Glenzer, S. H. ^[1]

L-399, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, California 94551 (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2007

OSTI Identifier:: 20951189

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Resource Relation:: Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 13; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.135001; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; HEAT TRANSFER; LASER-PRODUCED PLASMA; LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SIMULATION; THOMSON SCATTERING

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                    Froula, D. H., Ross, J. S., Pollock, B. B., Davis, P., James, A. N., Divol, L., Edwards, M. J., Offenberger, A. A., Price, D., Town, R. P. J., Tynan, G. R., and Glenzer, S. H.. Quenching of the Nonlocal Electron Heat Transport by Large External Magnetic Fields in a Laser-Produced Plasma Measured with Imaging Thomson Scattering.  United States: N. p., 2007. 
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                    Froula, D. H., Ross, J. S., Pollock, B. B., Davis, P., James, A. N., Divol, L., Edwards, M. J., Offenberger, A. A., Price, D., Town, R. P. J., Tynan, G. R., & Glenzer, S. H.. Quenching of the Nonlocal Electron Heat Transport by Large External Magnetic Fields in a Laser-Produced Plasma Measured with Imaging Thomson Scattering.  United States.  doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.135001.

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                    Froula, D. H., Ross, J. S., Pollock, B. B., Davis, P., James, A. N., Divol, L., Edwards, M. J., Offenberger, A. A., Price, D., Town, R. P. J., Tynan, G. R., and Glenzer, S. H.. Fri .  
        "Quenching of the Nonlocal Electron Heat Transport by Large External Magnetic Fields in a Laser-Produced Plasma Measured with Imaging Thomson Scattering".  United States.  
        doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.135001.

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@article{osti_20951189,

  title        = {Quenching of the Nonlocal Electron Heat Transport by Large External Magnetic Fields in a Laser-Produced Plasma Measured with Imaging Thomson Scattering},

  author       = {Froula, D. H. and Ross, J. S. and Pollock, B. B. and Davis, P. and James, A. N. and Divol, L. and Edwards, M. J. and Offenberger, A. A. and Price, D. and Town, R. P. J. and Tynan, G. R. and Glenzer, S. H.},

  abstractNote = {We present a direct measurement of the quenching of nonlocal heat transport in a laser-produced plasma by applying large external magnetic fields (>10 T). The temporally resolved Thomson-scattering measurements of the electron temperature profile show that the heat front propagation transverse to a high-power laser beam is slowed resulting in extremely strong local heating. We find agreement with hydrodynamic modeling when including a magnetic field model that self-consistently evolves the fields in the plasma.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.135001},

  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},

  number       = 13,

  volume       = 98,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2007},

  month        = {Fri Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2007}

}

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