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Guiding of relativistic electron beams in dense matter by laser-driven magnetostatic fields
M. Bailly-Grandvaux
1
J. Santos
1
C. Bellei
1
P. Forestier-Colleoni
1
S. Fujioka
2
L. Giuffrida
1
J. Honrubia
3
D. Batani
1
R. Bouillaud
1
M. Chevrot
4
J. Cross
5
R. Crowston
6
S. Dorard
4
J. Dubois
1
M. Ehret
1, 7
G. Gregori
5
S. Hulin
1
S. Kojima
2
E. Loyez
4
J. Marquès
4
A. Morace
8, 2
Ph. Nicolai
1
M. Roth
7
S. Sakata
2
G. Schaumann
7
F. Serres
4
J. Servel
1
V. Tikhonchuk
1
N. Woolsey
6
Z. Zhang
2
N. Woolsey 6
Author
Z. Zhang 2
Author
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CELIA - Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (351 cours de la libération 33405 Talence - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5107 (France)
- CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives : DAM/CESTA (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
- UB - Université de Bordeaux (35, place Pey Berland - 33076 Bordeaux - France)
2
Institute of laser Engineering (Japan)
- Osaka University [Osaka] (3-3-138 Sugimoto Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585 - Japan)
3
E.T.S.I. - E.T.S.I. Aeronauticos (Madrid 28040 - Spain)
- UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Calle Ramiro de Maeztu, 7, 28040 Madrid - Spain)
4
LULI - Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses (LULI, École Polytechnique, route de Saclay 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France LULI, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) 3 rue Galilée 9420 Ivry-sur-Seine, France - France)
- CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives : DAM/DIF (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
- X - École polytechnique (École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- SU - Sorbonne Université (21 rue de l’École de médecine - 75006 Paris - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7605 (France)
5
Department of Physics [Oxford] ( Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PU / Keble Rd OX1 3RH - United Kingdom)
- University of Oxford [Oxford] (Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD - United Kingdom)
6
Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom (United Kingdom)
7
Institut für Kernphysik [Darmstadt] (Schlossgartenstrasse 9, 64289 Darmstadt - Germany)
- TU Darmstadt - Technische Universität Darmstadt (Karolinenplatz 5, 64289 Darmstadt - Germany)
8
UNIMIB - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1 - 20126, Milano - Italy)
Abstract : Intense lasers interacting with dense targets accelerate relativistic electron beams, which transport part of the laser energy into the target depth. However, the overall laser-to-target energy coupling efficiency is impaired by the large divergence of the electron beam, intrinsic to the laser–plasma interaction. Here we demonstrate that an efficient guiding of MeV electrons with about 30 MA current in solid matter is obtained by imposing a laser-driven longitudinal magnetostatic field of 600 T. In the magnetized conditions the transported energy density and the peak background electron temperature at the 60-μm-thick target's rear surface rise by about a factor of five, as unfolded from benchmarked simulations. Such an improvement of energy-density flux through dense matter paves the ground for advances in laser-driven intense sources of energetic particles and radiation, driving matter to extreme temperatures, reaching states relevant for planetary or stellar science as yet inaccessible at the laboratory scale and achieving high-gain laser-driven thermonuclear fusion
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- HAL Id : cea-01878056, version 1
- DOI : 10.1038/s41467-017-02641-7
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M. Bailly-Grandvaux, J. Santos, C. Bellei, P. Forestier-Colleoni, S. Fujioka, et al.. Guiding of relativistic electron beams in dense matter by laser-driven magnetostatic fields. Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, 2018, 9, pp.102. ⟨10.1038/s41467-017-02641-7⟩. ⟨cea-01878056⟩