論文

2021年4月

Ion acceleration at two collisionless shocks in a multicomponent plasma

PHYSICAL REVIEW E
  • Rajesh Kumar
  • ,
  • Youichi Sakawa
  • ,
  • Takayoshi Sano
  • ,
  • Leonard N. K. Dohl
  • ,
  • Nigel Woolsey
  • ,
  • Alessio Morace

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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.103.043201
出版者・発行元
AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Intense laser-plasma interactions are an essential tool for the laboratory study of ion acceleration at a collisionless shock. With two-dimensional particle-in-cell calculations of a multicomponent plasma we observe two electrostatic collisionless shocks at two distinct longitudinal positions when driven with a linearly polarized laser at normalized laser vector potential a(0) that exceeds 10. Moreover, these shocks, associated with protons and carbon ions, show a power-law dependence on a(0) and accelerate ions to different velocities in an expanding upstream with higher flux than in a single-component hydrogen or carbon plasma. This results from an electrostatic ion two-stream instability caused by differences in the charge-to-mass ratio of different ions. Particle acceleration in collisionless shocks in multicomponent plasma are ubiquitous in space and astrophysics, and these calculations identify the possibility for studying these complex processes in the laboratory.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.043201
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000650948700011&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.103.043201
  • ISSN : 2470-0045
  • eISSN : 2470-0053
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000650948700011

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