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

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

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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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Univ. Bordeaux, Talence (France). CNRS, CEA, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA)
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
Univ. Bordeaux, Talence (France). CNRS, CEA, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA); Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. für Kernphysik
Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States). Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Aix Marseill Univ., Marseille (France). Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). iUNAT, Dept. de Física
Osaka Univ., Osaka (Japan). Inst. of Laser Engineering
Univ. de Valladolid, Valladolid (Spain). Atómica y Óptica, Dept. de Física Teórica
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
Atomique Energie Commission (CEA), Arpajon (France) Direction des Applications Militaires Ile-de-France (DAM DIF)
Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid (Spain). ETSI Aeronáutica y del Espacio
National Research Nuclear Univ. MEPhl, Moscow (Russia); Lebedev Physical Inst., Moscow (Russia)
LULI, UMR, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, and UPMC, Sorbonne Universités, Palaiseau (France)
Imperial College London, London (United Kingdom). Blackett Lab.
Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany). Inst. für Kernphysik
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden (Germany). Inst. for Radiation Physics
Univ. of York, Heslington (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics

Publication Date:: 2018-05-11

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:: 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. 
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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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