Return current and proton emission from short pulse laser interactions with wire targets

Beg, F. N. and Wei, M. S. and Clark, E. L. and Dangor, A. E. and Evans, R. G. and Gibbon, P. and Gopal, A. and Lancaster, K. L. and Ledingham, K. W.D. and McKenna, P. and Norreys, P. A. and Tatarakis, M. and Zepf, M. and Krushelnick, K. (2004) Return current and proton emission from short pulse laser interactions with wire targets. Physics of Plasmas, 11 (5 PART). pp. 2806-2813. ISSN 1070-664X (https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1704643)

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Abstract

Laser-plasma interaction experiments were conducted using the VULCAN laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The consequence of the return current and measurements of proton generation from the wire targets interacting with short pulse high intensity laser were produced. Optical and x-ray emission from the wire due to Ohmic heating caused by the return current were observed and an m=0 instability was found to develop in the wires. The proton emission was found to be in the form of an almost uniform double disk perpendicular to the wire at the interaction region.

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Beg, F. N., Wei, M. S., Clark, E. L., Dangor, A. E., Evans, R. G., Gibbon, P., Gopal, A., Lancaster, K. L., Ledingham, K. W.D., McKenna, P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8061-7091, Norreys, P. A., Tatarakis, M., Zepf, M. and Krushelnick, K.;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:66973
    Dates:
    Date
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    1 May 2004
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    Notes:This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Physics of Plasmas 11, 2806 (2004); and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1704643
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:14 Feb 2019 12:29
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 12:13
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/66973
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