Predictions for the energy loss of light ions in laser-generated plasmas at low and medium velocities

W. Cayzac, V. Bagnoud, M. M. Basko, A. Blažević, A. Frank, D. O. Gericke, L. Hallo, G. Malka, A. Ortner, An. Tauschwitz, J. Vorberger, and M. Roth
Phys. Rev. E 92, 053109 – Published 24 November 2015

Abstract

The energy loss of light ions in dense plasmas is investigated with special focus on low to medium projectile energies, i.e., at velocities where the maximum of the stopping power occurs. In this region, exceptionally large theoretical uncertainties remain and no conclusive experimental data are available. We perform simulations of beam-plasma configurations well suited for an experimental test of ion energy loss in highly ionized, laser-generated carbon plasmas. The plasma parameters are extracted from two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, and a Monte Carlo calculation of the charge-state distribution of the projectile ion beam determines the dynamics of the ion charge state over the whole plasma profile. We show that the discrepancies in the energy loss predicted by different theoretical models are as high as 20–30%, making these theories well distinguishable in suitable experiments.

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  • Received 30 April 2015
  • Revised 8 September 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.053109

©2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

W. Cayzac1,*, V. Bagnoud2,3, M. M. Basko4, A. Blažević2,3, A. Frank3, D. O. Gericke5, L. Hallo6, G. Malka1, A. Ortner7, An. Tauschwitz8, J. Vorberger9, and M. Roth7

  • 1Université Bordeaux-CEA-CNRS, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications, UMR 5107, 33405 Talence, France
  • 2GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstr. 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
  • 3Helmholtz-Institut Jena, Fröbelstieg 3, 07743 Jena, Germany
  • 4Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (KIAM), Miusskaya sq. 4, 125047 Moscow, Russia
  • 5Centre for Fusion, Space and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
  • 6CEA-Cesta, 15 Avenue des Sablières BP2, CS 60001, 33116, Le Barp, France
  • 7Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstr. 9, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
  • 8Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 9Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of complex systems, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany

  • *witold.cayzac@cea.fr

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Vol. 92, Iss. 5 — November 2015

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