Fast-electron refluxing effects on anisotropic hard-x-ray emission from intense laser-plasma interactions.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 91(3): 033107, 2015 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
Fast-electron generation and dynamics, including electron refluxing, is at the core of understanding high-intensity laser-plasma interactions. This field is itself of strong relevance to fast ignition fusion and the development of new short-pulse, intense, x-ray, γ-ray, and particle sources. In this paper, we describe experiments that explicitly link fast-electron refluxing and anisotropy in hard-x-ray emission. We find the anisotropy in x-ray emission to be strongly correlated to the suppression of refluxing. In contrast to some previous work, the peak of emission is directly along the rear normal to the target rather than along either the incident laser direction or the specular reflection direction.
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