Underdense relativistically thermal plasma produced by magnetically assisted direct laser acceleration
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چکیده
Successive stages of direct laser acceleration driven by two pulses in an applied magnetic field enable volumetric generation bulk-relativistic, persistently hot plasma at gas-jet-accessible and optically diagnosable density. Theory kinetic simulations demonstrate robustness to experimentally relevant parameters indicate that this approach is capable accessing a relativistically thermal regime significant interest for basic physics, laser-plasma laboratory astrophysics.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical review research
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2643-1564']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.4.l042017