The scaling of electron and positron generation in intense laser-solid interactions

Chen, Hui; Link, A.; Sentoku, Y.; Audebert, P.; Fiuza, F.; Hazi, A.; Heeter, R. F.; Hill, M.; Hobbs, L.; Kemp, A. J.; Kemp, G. E.; Kerr, S.; Meyerhofer, D. D.; Myatt, J.; Nagel, S. R.; Park, J.; Tommasini, R.; Williams, G. J.

doi:10.1063/1.4921147

Title: The scaling of electron and positron generation in intense laser-solid interactions

Journal Article · Wed May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4921147· OSTI ID:1251078

Chen, Hui ^[1]; Link, A. ^[1]; Sentoku, Y. ^[2];

^[3]; Fiuza, F. ^[1];

^[1];

^[4]; Hobbs, L. ^[4]; Kemp, A. J. ^[1]; Kemp, G. E. ^[1];

^[5]; Meyerhofer, D. D. ^[6]; Myatt, J. ^[6];

^[1]; Park, J. ^[1]; Tommasini, R. ^[1];

^[1]

Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France). Lab. for the Use of Intense Lasers (LULI)
AWE plc, Reading (United Kingdom). Directorate of Science and Technology
Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada)
Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics (LLE)

This study presents experimental scalings of the electrons and positrons produced by intense laser-target interactions at relativistic laser intensities (10¹⁸–10²⁰ W cm^-2). The data were acquired from three short-pulse laser facilities with laser energies ranging from 80 to 1500 J. We found a non-linear (≈E_L²) scaling of positron yield [Chen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 215001 (2015)] and a linear scaling of electron yield with the laser energy. These scalings are explained by theoretical and numerical analyses. Positron acceleration by the target sheath field is confirmed by the positron energy spectrum, which has a pronounced peak at energies near the sheath potential, as determined by the observed maximum energies of accelerated protons. The parameters of laser-produced electron-positron jets are summarized together with the theoretical energy scaling. Finally, the measured energy-squared scaling of relativistic electron-positron jets indicates the possibility to create an astrophysically relevant experimental platform with such jets using multi-kilojoule high intensity lasers currently under construction.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

View Accepted Manuscript (Publisher)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; LLNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1251078

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1228158

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-667679

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 22, Issue 5; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 34 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (45)

High energy electrons, nuclear phenomena and heating in petawatt laser-solid experiments Cowan, T. E.; Perry, M. D.; Key, M. H. Laser and Particle Beams, Vol. 17, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263034699174238	journal	October 1999
Spontaneously Growing Transverse Waves in a Plasma Due to an Anisotropic Velocity Distribution Weibel, Erich S. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 2, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.2.83	journal	February 1959
Particle acceleration in relativistic laser channels Pukhov, A.; Sheng, Z. -M.; Meyer-ter-Vehn, J. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 6, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.873242	journal	July 1999
High performance compact magnetic spectrometers for energetic ion and electron measurement in ultraintense short pulse laser solid interactions Chen, Hui; Link, Anthony J.; van Maren, Roger Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 79, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2953679	journal	October 2008
Effect of Plasma Scale Length on Multi-MeV Proton Production by Intense Laser Pulses Mackinnon, A. J.; Borghesi, M.; Hatchett, S. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 86, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1769	journal	February 2001
Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Waxman, Eli Physical Review Letters, Vol. 75, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.386	journal	July 1995
Production and detection of cold antihydrogen atoms Amoretti, M.; Amsler, C.; Bonomi, G. Nature, Vol. 419, Issue 6906 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01096	journal	September 2002
Background-Free Observation of Cold Antihydrogen with Field-Ionization Analysis of Its States Gabrielse, G.; Bowden, N. S.; Oxley, P. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 89, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.213401	journal	October 2002
Laser-driven plasma-wave electron accelerators Leemans, Wim; Esarey, Eric Physics Today, Vol. 62, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3099645	journal	March 2009
Positronium molecule formation, Bose–Einstein condensation and stimulated annihilation Mills, Allen Paine Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 192, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-583X(02)00790-5	journal	May 2002
Modeling Astrophysical Phenomena in the Laboratory with Intense Lasers Remington, B. A. Science, Vol. 284, Issue 5419 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.284.5419.1488	journal	May 1999
Simulation of laser–plasma interactions and fast-electron transport in inhomogeneous plasma Cohen, B. I.; Kemp, A. J.; Divol, L. Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 229, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2010.03.001	journal	June 2010
Absorption of ultra-intense laser pulses Wilks, S. C.; Kruer, W. L.; Tabak, M. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 69, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.1383	journal	August 1992
Laser–plasma interactions for fast ignition Kemp, A. J.; Fiuza, F.; Debayle, A. Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 54, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/54/5/054002	journal	April 2014
Towards laboratory produced relativistic electron–positron pair plasmas Chen, Hui; Meyerhofer, D. D.; Wilks, S. C. High Energy Density Physics, Vol. 7, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hedp.2011.05.006	journal	December 2011
Gamma-ray bursters at cosmological distances Paczynski, B. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 308 https://doi.org/10.1086/184740	journal	September 1986
Short Pulse Laser Interactions with Matter: An Introduction Gibbon, Paul https://doi.org/10.1142/p116	book	September 2005
Gamma-ray bursts and the fireball model Piran, Tsvi Physics Reports, Vol. 314, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0370-1573(98)00127-6	journal	June 1999
Overview of laser systems for the Orion facility at the AWE Hopps, Nicholas; Danson, Colin; Duffield, Stuart Applied Optics, Vol. 52, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.52.003597	journal	January 2013
Stopping and scattering of relativistic electron beams in dense plasmas and requirements for fast ignition Atzeni, S.; Schiavi, A.; Davies, J. R. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 51, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/51/1/015016	journal	December 2008
Measuring electron-positron annihilation radiation from laser plasma interactions Chen, Hui; Tommasini, R.; Seely, J. Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 83, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4734038	journal	October 2012
Emittance of positron beams produced in intense laser plasma interaction Chen, Hui; Sheppard, J. C.; Meyerhofer, D. D. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 20, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4789621	journal	January 2013
Kilotesla Magnetic Field due to a Capacitor-Coil Target Driven by High Power Laser Fujioka, Shinsuke; Zhang, Zhe; Ishihara, Kazuhiro Scientific Reports, Vol. 3, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep01170	journal	January 2013
Practical Improvements to the Lee-More Conductivity Near the Metal-Insulator Transition Desjarlais, M. P. Contributions to Plasma Physics, Vol. 41, Issue 2-3 https://doi.org/10.1002/1521-3986(200103)41:2/3%3C267::AID-CTPP267%3E3.0.CO;2-P	journal	March 2001
Transport study of intense-laser-produced fast electrons in solid targets with a preplasma created by a long pulse laser Yabuuchi, T.; Paradkar, B. S.; Wei, M. S. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 17, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3447878	journal	June 2010
Development of the PETawatt Aquitaine Laser system and new perspectives in physics Batani, D.; Koenig, M.; Miquel, J. L. Physica Scripta, Vol. T161 https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/2014/T161/014016	journal	May 2014
Emerging science and technology of antimatter plasmas and trap-based beams Surko, C. M.; Greaves, R. G. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 11, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1651487	journal	May 2004
Scaling the Yield of Laser-Driven Electron-Positron Jets to Laboratory Astrophysical Applications Chen, Hui; Fiuza, F.; Link, A. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 114, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.215001	journal	May 2015
Absorption of Short Laser Pulses on Solid Targets in the Ultrarelativistic Regime Ping, Y.; Shepherd, R.; Lasinski, B. F. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.085004	journal	February 2008
Time-Resolved Measurements of Hot-Electron Equilibration Dynamics in High-Intensity Laser Interactions with Thin-Foil Solid Targets Nilson, P. M.; Davies, J. R.; Theobald, W. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.085002	journal	February 2012
Relativistic Quasimonoenergetic Positron Jets from Intense Laser-Solid Interactions Chen, Hui; Wilks, S. C.; Meyerhofer, D. D. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.015003	journal	July 2010
Relativistic Positron Creation Using Ultraintense Short Pulse Lasers Chen, Hui; Wilks, Scott C.; Bonlie, James D. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.105001	journal	March 2009
ITS: the integrated TIGER series of electron/photon transport codes-Version 3.0 Halbleib, J. A.; Kensek, R. P.; Valdez, G. D. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 39, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1109/23.159753	journal	January 1992
Measuring huge magnetic fields Tatarakis, M.; Watts, I.; Beg, F. N. Nature, Vol. 415, Issue 6869 https://doi.org/10.1038/415280a	journal	January 2002
Possibilities for Bose condensation of positronium Platzman, P. M.; Mills, A. P. Physical Review B, Vol. 49, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.49.454	journal	January 1994
Relativistic fireballs: energy conversion and time-scales Rees, M. J.; Meszaros, P. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 258, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/258.1.41P	journal	September 1992
Optimizing electron-positron pair production on kilojoule-class high-intensity lasers for the purpose of pair-plasma creation Myatt, J.; Delettrez, J. A.; Maximov, A. V. Physical Review E, Vol. 79, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.066409	journal	June 2009
Fast ignition integrated experiments with Gekko and LFEX lasers Shiraga, H.; Fujioka, S.; Nakai, M. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 53, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/53/12/124029	journal	November 2011
Magnetic collimation of relativistic positrons and electrons from high intensity laser–matter interactions Chen, Hui; Fiksel, G.; Barnak, D. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 21, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4873711	journal	April 2014
High-Energy Petawatt Capability for the Omega Laser Waxer, L. J.; Maywar, D. N.; Kelly, J. H. Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 16, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1364/OPN.16.7.000030	journal	January 2005
Pair, Triplet, and Total Atomic Cross Sections (and Mass Attenuation Coefficients) for 1 MeV‐100 GeV Photons in Elements Z =1 to 100 Hubbell, J. H.; Gimm, H. A.; O/verbo/, I. Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, Vol. 9, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555629	journal	October 1980
The physics of gamma-ray bursts Piran, Tsvi Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 76, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.76.1143	journal	January 2005
Progress on converting a NIF quad to eight, petawatt beams for advanced radiography Crane, J. K.; Tietbohl, G.; Arnold, P. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 244, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/244/3/032003	journal	August 2010
Gamma-ray bursts Mészáros, P. Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 69, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/69/8/R01	journal	July 2006
Effects of target charging and ion emission on the energy spectrum of emitted electrons Link, A.; Freeman, R. R.; Schumacher, D. W. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 18, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3587123	journal	May 2011

Cited By (15)

Multi-GeV electron-positron beam generation from laser-electron scattering Vranic, Marija; Klimo, Ondrej; Korn, Georg Scientific Reports, Vol. 8, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23126-7	journal	March 2018
Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse Arefiev, A. V.; Khudik, V. N.; Robinson, A. P. L. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 23, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4942036	journal	February 2016
Ultrashort megaelectronvolt positron beam generation based on laser-accelerated electrons Xu, Tongjun; Shen, Baifei; Xu, Jiancai Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 23, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943280	journal	March 2016
Beyond the ponderomotive limit: Direct laser acceleration of relativistic electrons in sub-critical plasmas Arefiev, A. V.; Khudik, V. N.; Robinson, A. P. L. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 23, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4946024	journal	April 2016
Universal scalings for laser acceleration of electrons in ion channels Khudik, Vladimir; Arefiev, Alexey; Zhang, Xi Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 23, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4964901	journal	October 2016
Target material dependence of positron generation from high intensity laser-matter interactions Williams, G. J.; Barnak, D.; Fiksel, G. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 23, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4971235	journal	December 2016
High-energy (>70 keV) x-ray conversion efficiency measurement on the ARC laser at the National Ignition Facility Chen, Hui; Hermann, M. R.; Kalantar, D. H. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 24, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4978493	journal	March 2017
X-ray emission reduction and photon dose lowering by energy loss of fast electrons induced by return current during the interaction of a short-pulse high-intensity laser on a metal solid target Compant La Fontaine, A. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 25, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5006998	journal	April 2018
Simple scaling equations for electron spectra, currents, and bulk heating in ultra-intense short-pulse laser-solid interaction Kluge, T.; Bussmann, M.; Schramm, U. Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 25, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5037753	journal	July 2018
High-angle deflection of the energetic electrons by a voluminous magnetic structure in near-normal intense laser-plasma interactions Peebles, J.; Arefiev, A. V.; Zhang, S. Physical Review E, Vol. 98, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.98.053202	journal	November 2018
Spontaneous emergence of non-planar electron orbits during direct laser acceleration by a linearly polarized laser pulse Arefiev, A. V.; Khudik, V. N.; Robinson, A. P. L. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1510.05764	text	January 2015
Beyond the ponderomotive limit: direct laser acceleration of relativistic electrons in sub-critical plasmas Arefiev, A. V.; Khudik, V. N.; Robinson, A. P. L. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1602.08758	text	January 2016
Universal scalings for laser acceleration of electrons in ion channels Khudik, Vladimir; Arefiev, Alexey; Zhang, Xi arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1603.04757	text	January 2016
Multi-GeV electron-positron beam generation from laser-electron scattering Vranic, Marija; Klimo, Ondrej; Korn, Georg arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1710.07220	preprint	January 2017
High-angle Deflection of the Energetic Electrons by a Voluminous Magnetic Structure in Near-normal Intense Laser-plasma Interactions Peebles, J.; Arefiev, A. V.; Zhang, S. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1810.02398	text	January 2018

Similar Records

The scaling of electron and positron generation in intense laser-solid interactions

Journal Article · Fri May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physics of Plasmas · OSTI ID:1251078

Chen, Hui; Link, A.; Fiuza, F.; +15 more

LLE-Annual report input

Technical Report · Thu Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · OSTI ID:1251078

Chen, H.

Towards laboratory produced relativistic electron–positron pair plasmas

Journal Article · Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2011 · High Energy Density Physics · OSTI ID:1251078

Chen, Hui; Meyerhofer, D. D.; Wilks, S. C.; +17 more

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
positrons
photons
gold
protons
electron positron interactions

Title: The scaling of electron and positron generation in intense laser-solid interactions

Citation Formats

References (45)

Cited By (15)

Similar Records

Related Subjects