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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2017

Collimated propagation of fast electron beams accelerated by high-contrast laser pulses in highly-resistive shocked-carbon

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Collimated transport of ultrahigh intensity electron current was observed in cold and in laser-shocked vitreous carbon, in agreement with simulation predictions. The fast electron beams were created by coupling high-intensity and high-contrast laser pulses onto copper-coated cones drilled into the carbon samples. The guiding mechanism—observed only for times before the shock breakout at the inner cone tip—is due to self-generated resistive magnetic fields of ∼0.5–1  kT arising from the intense currents of fast electrons in vitreous carbon, by virtue of its specific high resistivity over the range of explored background temperatures. The spatial distribution of the electron beams, injected through the samples at different stages of compression, was characterized by side-on imaging of hard x-ray fluorescence.
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hal-01825114 , version 1 (28-06-2018)

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X. Vaisseau, A. Morace, M. Touati, M. Nakatsutsumi, S. D. Baton, et al.. Collimated propagation of fast electron beams accelerated by high-contrast laser pulses in highly-resistive shocked-carbon. Physical Review Letters, 2017, 118 (20), pp.205001. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.205001⟩. ⟨hal-01825114⟩
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