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High power gamma flare generation in multipetawatt laser interaction with tailored targets (Conference Presentation)
Paper Abstract
Using quantum electrodynamics particle-in-cell simulations, we optimize the gamma flare (γ-flare)
generation scheme from interaction of high power petawatt-class laser pulse with tailored cryogenic
hydrogen target having extended preplasma corona. We show that it is possible to generate an
energetic flare of photons with energies in the GeV range and total flare energy being on a kilojoule
level with an efficient conversion of the laser pulse energy to γ-photons. We discuss how the target
engineering and laser pulse parameters influence the γ-flare generation efficiency. This type of
experimental setup for laser-based γ source would be feasible for the upcoming high power laser
facilities. Applications of high intensity γ ray beams are also discussed.
The paper on this research project is submitted to Physics of Plasmas and available at arXiv:1809.09594
Paper Details
Date Published: 14 May 2019
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Proc. SPIE 11039, Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers IV, 110390I (14 May 2019); doi: 10.1117/12.2521058
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 11039:
Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers IV
Georg Korn; Luis O. Silva, Editor(s)
Proc. SPIE 11039, Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers IV, 110390I (14 May 2019); doi: 10.1117/12.2521058
Show Author Affiliations
Kirill V. Lezhnin, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (United States)
Pavel Sasorov, ELI Beamlines (Czech Republic)
Pavel Sasorov, ELI Beamlines (Czech Republic)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 11039:
Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers IV
Georg Korn; Luis O. Silva, Editor(s)
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