Effects of dimensionality on kinetic simulations of laser-ion acceleration in the transparency regime
Abstract
A particle-in-cell study of laser-ion acceleration mechanisms in the transparency regime illustrates how two-dimensional (2D) S and P simulations (laser polarization in and out of the simulation plane, respectively) capture different physics characterizing these systems, visible in their entirety often in cost-prohibitive three-dimensional (3D) simulations. The electron momentum anisotropy induced in the target by a laser pulse is dramatically different in the two 2D cases, manifested in differences in target expansion timescales, electric field strengths, and density thresholds for the onset of relativistically induced transparency. In particular, 2D-P simulations exhibit dramatically greater electron heating in the simulation plane, whereas 2D-S ones show a much more isotropic energy distribution, similar to 3D. An ion trajectory analysis allows one to isolate the fields responsible for ion acceleration and to characterize the acceleration regimes in time and space. The artificial longitudinal electron heating in 2D-P exaggerates the effectiveness of target-normal sheath acceleration into its dominant acceleration mechanism throughout the laser-plasma interaction, whereas 2D-S and 3D both have sizable populations accelerated preferentially during transparency.
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1364554
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1375641
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-17-22260
Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
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Stark, David James, Yin, Lin, Albright, Brian James, and Guo, Fan. Effects of dimensionality on kinetic simulations of laser-ion acceleration in the transparency regime. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4982741.
Stark, David James, Yin, Lin, Albright, Brian James, & Guo, Fan. Effects of dimensionality on kinetic simulations of laser-ion acceleration in the transparency regime. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4982741
Stark, David James, Yin, Lin, Albright, Brian James, and Guo, Fan. Wed .
"Effects of dimensionality on kinetic simulations of laser-ion acceleration in the transparency regime". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4982741. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1364554.
@article{osti_1364554,
title = {Effects of dimensionality on kinetic simulations of laser-ion acceleration in the transparency regime},
author = {Stark, David James and Yin, Lin and Albright, Brian James and Guo, Fan},
abstractNote = {A particle-in-cell study of laser-ion acceleration mechanisms in the transparency regime illustrates how two-dimensional (2D) S and P simulations (laser polarization in and out of the simulation plane, respectively) capture different physics characterizing these systems, visible in their entirety often in cost-prohibitive three-dimensional (3D) simulations. The electron momentum anisotropy induced in the target by a laser pulse is dramatically different in the two 2D cases, manifested in differences in target expansion timescales, electric field strengths, and density thresholds for the onset of relativistically induced transparency. In particular, 2D-P simulations exhibit dramatically greater electron heating in the simulation plane, whereas 2D-S ones show a much more isotropic energy distribution, similar to 3D. An ion trajectory analysis allows one to isolate the fields responsible for ion acceleration and to characterize the acceleration regimes in time and space. The artificial longitudinal electron heating in 2D-P exaggerates the effectiveness of target-normal sheath acceleration into its dominant acceleration mechanism throughout the laser-plasma interaction, whereas 2D-S and 3D both have sizable populations accelerated preferentially during transparency.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4982741},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 5,
volume = 24,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed May 03 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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