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Stochastic heating in ultra high intensity laser-plasma interaction: Theory and PIC code simulations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2006

D. PATIN ,
E. LEFEBVRE ,
A. BOURDIER  and
E. D'HUMIÈRES
D. PATIN
Affiliation:
Commissariat l'Energie Atomique, DAM-Lle de France, Département de Physique Théorique et Appliquée, Bruyéres-le-Châtel, France
E. LEFEBVRE
Affiliation:
Commissariat l'Energie Atomique, DAM-Lle de France, Département de Physique Théorique et Appliquée, Bruyéres-le-Châtel, France
A. BOURDIER
Affiliation:
Commissariat l'Energie Atomique, DAM-Lle de France, Département de Physique Théorique et Appliquée, Bruyéres-le-Châtel, France
E. D'HUMIÈRES
Affiliation:
Commissariat l'Energie Atomique, DAM-Lle de France, Département de Physique Théorique et Appliquée, Bruyéres-le-Châtel, France
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Abstract

In the first part, the theoretical model of the stochastic heating effect is presented briefly. Then, a numerical resolution of the Hamilton equations highlights the threshold of the stochastic effect. Finally, Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code simulations results, for experimentally relevant parameters, are presented in order to confirm the acceleration mechanism predicted by the one-particle theoretical model. This paper gives the conditions on the different experimental parameters in order to have an optimization of the stochastic heating.

Keywords

Laser-plasma interactionPIC codeStochastic heating
Type
Research Article
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 223 - 230
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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