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Title: Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high energy-density physics

Abstract

Powerful nanosecond laser-plasma processes are explored to generate discharge currents of a few 100 kA in coil targets, yielding magnetostatic fields (B-fields) in excess of 0.5 kT. The quasi-static currents are provided from hot electron ejection from the laser-irradiated surface. According to the model used in our paper, which describes the evolution of the discharge current, the major control parameter is the laser irradiance Ilasλ2las. The space-time evolution of the B-fields is experimentally characterized by high-frequency bandwidth B-dot probes and proton-deflectometry measurements. The magnetic pulses, of ns-scale, are long enough to magnetize secondary targets through resistive diffusion. We applied it in experiments of laser-generated relativistic electron transport through solid dielectric targets, yielding an unprecedented 5-fold enhancement of the energy-density flux at 60 μm depth, compared to unmagnetized transport conditions. These studies pave the ground for magnetized high-energy density physics investigations, related to laser-generated secondary sources of radiation and/or high-energy particles and their transport, to high-gain fusion energy schemes, and to laboratory astrophysics.

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  1. Univ. Bordeaux, Talence (France). CNRS, CEA, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA)
  2. Univ. Bordeaux, Talence (France). CNRS, CEA, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA); Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  3. Univ. Bordeaux, Talence (France). CNRS, CEA, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA); Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. für Kernphysik
  4. Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  5. Aix Marseill Univ., Marseille (France). Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
  6. Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). iUNAT, Dept. de Física
  7. Osaka Univ., Osaka (Japan). Inst. of Laser Engineering
  8. Univ. de Valladolid, Valladolid (Spain). Atómica y Óptica, Dept. de Física Teórica
  9. Univ. Bordeaux, Talence (France). CNRS, CEA, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA); Czech Academy of Sciences, Dolní Břežany (Czech Republic). Inst. of Phyiscs, ELI-Beamlines
  10. Atomique Energie Commission (CEA), Arpajon (France) Direction des Applications Militaires Ile-de-France (DAM DIF)
  11. Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid (Spain). ETSI Aeronáutica y del Espacio
  12. National Research Nuclear Univ. MEPhl, Moscow (Russia); Lebedev Physical Inst., Moscow (Russia)
  13. LULI, UMR, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, and UPMC, Sorbonne Universités, Palaiseau (France)
  14. Imperial College London, London (United Kingdom). Blackett Lab.
  15. Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. für Kernphysik
  16. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden (Germany). Inst. for Radiation Physics
  17. Univ. of York, Heslington (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1540163
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0018312
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 25; 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; Physics

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Santos, J. J., Bailly-Grandvaux, M., Ehret, M., Arefiev, A. V., Batani, D., Beg, F. N., Calisti, A., Ferri, S., Florido, R., Forestier-Colleoni, P., Fujioka, S., Gigosos, M. A., Giuffrida, L., Gremillet, L., Honrubia, J. J., Kojima, S., Korneev, Ph., Law, K. F. F., Marquès, J. -R., Morace, A., Mossé, C., Peyrusse, O., Rose, S., Roth, M., Sakata, S., Schaumann, G., Suzuki-Vidal, F., Tikhonchuk, V. T., Toncian, T., Woolsey, N., and Zhang, Z. Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high energy-density physics. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1063/1.5018735.
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Santos, J. J., Bailly-Grandvaux, M., Ehret, M., Arefiev, A. V., Batani, D., Beg, F. N., Calisti, A., Ferri, S., Florido, R., Forestier-Colleoni, P., Fujioka, S., Gigosos, M. A., Giuffrida, L., Gremillet, L., Honrubia, J. J., Kojima, S., Korneev, Ph., Law, K. F. F., Marquès, J. -R., Morace, A., Mossé, C., Peyrusse, O., Rose, S., Roth, M., Sakata, S., Schaumann, G., Suzuki-Vidal, F., Tikhonchuk, V. T., Toncian, T., Woolsey, N., & Zhang, Z. Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high energy-density physics. United States. doi:10.1063/1.5018735.
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Santos, J. J., Bailly-Grandvaux, M., Ehret, M., Arefiev, A. V., Batani, D., Beg, F. N., Calisti, A., Ferri, S., Florido, R., Forestier-Colleoni, P., Fujioka, S., Gigosos, M. A., Giuffrida, L., Gremillet, L., Honrubia, J. J., Kojima, S., Korneev, Ph., Law, K. F. F., Marquès, J. -R., Morace, A., Mossé, C., Peyrusse, O., Rose, S., Roth, M., Sakata, S., Schaumann, G., Suzuki-Vidal, F., Tikhonchuk, V. T., Toncian, T., Woolsey, N., and Zhang, Z. Fri . "Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high energy-density physics". United States. doi:10.1063/1.5018735. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1540163.
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@article{osti_1540163,
title = {Laser-driven strong magnetostatic fields with applications to charged beam transport and magnetized high energy-density physics},
author = {Santos, J. J. and Bailly-Grandvaux, M. and Ehret, M. and Arefiev, A. V. and Batani, D. and Beg, F. N. and Calisti, A. and Ferri, S. and Florido, R. and Forestier-Colleoni, P. and Fujioka, S. and Gigosos, M. A. and Giuffrida, L. and Gremillet, L. and Honrubia, J. J. and Kojima, S. and Korneev, Ph. and Law, K. F. F. and Marquès, J. -R. and Morace, A. and Mossé, C. and Peyrusse, O. and Rose, S. and Roth, M. and Sakata, S. and Schaumann, G. and Suzuki-Vidal, F. and Tikhonchuk, V. T. and Toncian, T. and Woolsey, N. and Zhang, Z.},
abstractNote = {Powerful nanosecond laser-plasma processes are explored to generate discharge currents of a few 100 kA in coil targets, yielding magnetostatic fields (B-fields) in excess of 0.5 kT. The quasi-static currents are provided from hot electron ejection from the laser-irradiated surface. According to the model used in our paper, which describes the evolution of the discharge current, the major control parameter is the laser irradiance Ilasλ2las. The space-time evolution of the B-fields is experimentally characterized by high-frequency bandwidth B-dot probes and proton-deflectometry measurements. The magnetic pulses, of ns-scale, are long enough to magnetize secondary targets through resistive diffusion. We applied it in experiments of laser-generated relativistic electron transport through solid dielectric targets, yielding an unprecedented 5-fold enhancement of the energy-density flux at 60 μm depth, compared to unmagnetized transport conditions. These studies pave the ground for magnetized high-energy density physics investigations, related to laser-generated secondary sources of radiation and/or high-energy particles and their transport, to high-gain fusion energy schemes, and to laboratory astrophysics.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5018735},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 5,
volume = 25,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {5}
}
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