束—等离子体互作用产生的高功率微波辐射

相对论性电子束-等离子体装置是一种具有很大潜力的新型高功率微波源。本文对电子束密度与等离子体密度之比n_b/n_p≈0.01时,束-等离子体相互作用产生频率为ω_p的微波辐射过程进行了研究。利用线性和非线性(扎哈罗夫)色散关系,对存在的主要不稳定性进行了分析。着重推导了不稳定静电波转变为电磁波的参量衰变色散关系,由此得到了束-等离子体系统的辐射率。最后,对能量由电子束动能转移到等离子体波,再转变为电磁辐射和加热等离子体的过程建立了数理模型。     

离子通道电子束回旋脉塞的等离子体波效应

 研究了离子通道回旋电子束脉塞（ICECM）中的等离子体波非线性效应。利用流体理论与自洽非线性理论方法对ICECM中等离子体波效应的微观机理进行了分析。研究发现，等离子体波加强了电子束的纵向群聚，束-波互作用的能量交换效率及系统增益得到明显提高。数值模拟计算表明，对于中等等离子体密度、1.5kA电流和1MV加速电压的电子束，系统能够获得的脉冲功率和频率分别为200MW和280GHz的毫米波束。     

无碰撞等离子体中电子束流不稳定性的时空演化研究

应用二、三维相对论电磁粒子模拟程序研究双电子束流在无碰撞等离子体中传播引起的横向 电磁(Weibel类型)不稳定性和纵向静电不稳定性的发展演化过程.讨论了纯粹Weibel不稳定 性的发生和非线性饱和过程，观察到电流束合并、磁场重联等引起的电子横向加热现象.研 究了电流束传播方向激发的静电场对快电子束传播的影响，观察到其导致的束的横向调制、 磁场通道破坏现象.对这些过程的细致研究对更好的理解快点火物理中自生磁场的产生、快 电子输运等过程有重要意义.     

提高等离子体密度抑制逃逸电子束不稳定性的实验研究

利用ECE电子回旋辐射和Ha线辐射等托卡马克物理诊断系统,研究了Slide-away放电过程中提高等离子体密度对非麦克斯维尔分布的逃逸电子所激发的逃逸电子束不稳定性影响作用。实验结果表明：在Slide-away放电模式下,提高等离子体密度能有效抑制逃逸电子束的不稳定性。     

北京正负电子对撞机中的束流光电子不稳定性研究

高能储存环中的正电子束流辐射出光子,打在束流管道壁上产生光电子并形成电子云;多束团正电子束流与电子云相互作用,有可能发生的不稳定性,称为束流光电子不稳定性.这种不稳定性有可能在下一代高能正负电子对撞机的束流中发生,因此对这种束流不稳定性的研究,也有很重要的实际意义.文章讨论了在北京正负电子对撞机(BEPC)上开展的束流光电子不稳定性实验和模拟分析研究.     

提高等离子体密度抑制逃逸电子束不稳定性的实验研究

利用ECE电子回旋辐射和Ha线辐射等托卡马克物理诊断系统,研究了Slide-away放电过程中提高等离子体密度对非麦克斯维尔分布的逃逸电子所激发的逃逸电子束不稳定性影响作用.实验结果表明:在Slide-away放电模式下,提高等离子体密度能有效抑制逃逸电子束的不稳定性.     

超强激光等离子体相互作用中的自生磁场与能量运输

采用数值方法研究了超强激光与等离子体相互作用中产生的电磁不稳定性及其产生机制。用Spitzer-Harm理论分析了电子热传导中能量的运输情况,观察到由激光的非等方加热引起的电子纵向加热现象。结果表明,不稳定性激发的强电磁场使电子束在非常短的距离内沉积能量,同时对在激光有质动力推开电子时形成的电子热流产生抑制作用。同时发现,随着自生磁场的增长,电子被磁场波捕捉,热运输受抑制。     

无碰撞等离子体中电子束流不稳定性的时空演化

强激光在冕区等离子体中传播到临界面附近生成相对论电子和相对论电子束流在随后较长一段稠密等离子体区的能量传输是快点火中的关键问题。对快点火条件下的激光等离子体参数，临界面附近产生的前向快电子电流往往超过阿尔芬极限电流，必须在稠密等离子体中产生中和回流，快电子流才能在稠密等离子体中向前输运。横向电磁不稳定性（类Weibel不稳定性，WI）和纵向静电双流不稳定性（TSI）很容易在这种电子双流体系中激发，前向电子束会被调制或成丝状结构，同时激发电磁场，粒子部分动能会转化为电磁场能量。不稳定性在非线性饱和后，发生电流丝的合并、磁场重联等过程，部分电磁场能量会再转化为粒子能量，表现为对离子体的横向加热。Weibel不稳定性的作用可能形成围绕传播电子束的磁通道，对快电子的定向和准直传播是重要的。TSI激发的纵向静电场对磁场通道会有明显的调制甚至破坏作用，直接影响高能电子流从激光吸收区到燃料压缩区的准直传播。     

强流相对论性电子束在低压中性气体中传输的研究

本文给出了强流相对论性电子束(IREB)在低压中性气体中传输特性的理论和实验研究结果。660kV,40kA,脉宽100ns的电子束注入充有H_2,N_2的漂移管,稳定的传输气压范围在(0.7-6.7)×10~2Pa间,传输效率可达80％以上;极低气压时(P≈13.3Pa)由于空间电荷效应,束电子被虚阴极阻滞并径向发散,不能有效传输;而较高气压时,束电子除受自身电磁场作用及库仑碰撞散射外,等离子体不稳定性使束流传输效率明显降低。用蒙特·卡洛法及数值解析法对电荷中和、电流中和过程进行了模拟计算并解释了实验结果。     

飞秒激光等离子体中电子热传导现象的数值模拟

采用相对论电磁粒子模拟程序研究了飞秒激光等离子体相互作用中产生的电流密度、电场和自生磁场的发展演化过程。介绍了电子的非局域热输运的基本特性以及激光加热过程中温度烧蚀前沿稠密等离子体子区的预热效应、临界面附近的限流效应,以及冕区的反扩散与限流效应,得到了经典Spitzer-Harm理论描述的电子热传导随自生磁场的演化情形。数值模拟表明:在线性强激光作用下,由于电子初始时刻的无规则热运动,在等离子体上激发电磁不稳定性,而不稳定性激发的强电磁场使电子束在非常短的距离内沉积能量,同时对在激光有质动力推开电子时形成的超热电子能量输运产生抑制作用。     

The study of the weibel electromagnetic instability growth rate in the presence of the body stress

Body stress flow can be expected in the fast ignition imploding of the inertial fusion process that strongly damps small‐scale velocity structures. The Weibel instability is one of the plasma instabilities that require anisotropy in the distribution function. The body stress effect was neglected in the calculation of the Weibel instability growth rate. In this article, the propagation condition of impinging waves and the growing modes of the Weibel instability on the plasma density gradient of the fuel fusion with the body stress flow are investigated. Calculations show that the minimum value of the body stress rate threshold in the linear polarization is about 2.96 times greater than that of the circular polarization. Increasing 10 times of the density gradient and decreasing 2 times of the wavelength in the linear polarization and the circular polarization, respectively, lead to about 1.78 × 10⁶ times increment and 0.019 times decrement in the maximum of the Weibel instability growth rate. Also, the Weibel instability growth rate maximum in the circular polarization is about 10⁷ times greater than that of the linear polarization. The body stress flow and the density gradient tend to stabilize the Weibel instability in the circular polarization and act as a destabilizing source in the linear polarization. Therefore, by increasing steps of the density gradient plasma near the relativistic electron beam‐emitting region, in the circular polarization, the Weibel instability occurs at a higher stress flow.     

Study of Coulomb collisional effects on the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a turbulent plasma

The presence of Weibel instability in laser-irradiated fuel could be detrimental to the process of ablative implosion, which is necessary for achieving thermonuclear fusion reactions. In this paper, the effect of the Coulomb collisional within the turbulent plasma on the Weibel instability growth rate has been investigated for linear and circular polarization. The results indicate that the Weibel instability growth rate at circular polarization near the ignition centre of the fuel fusion (collisional plasma) is about 10⁵ times higher than the collisional Weibel instability growth rate at linear polarization. The Weibel instability growth rate is observed near the critical density of the fuel fusion (collisionless plasma) at linear polarization and enhancement near the foot of the heat in front of the fuel fusion. By increasing the steps of the density gradient plasma in the low-density corona, electromagnetic instability occurs at a higher stress flow. Therefore, the deposition condition of electron beam energy in circular polarization of turbulent plasma can be shifted to the fuel core for suitable ignition.     

The ion streaming effect on Weibel instability in the relativistic dense plasma

The Weibel instability plays an important role in stopping hot electrons and energy deposition mechanism in fast ignition of inertial fusion process. In this paper, the ion Weibel instability in counter propagating electron‐ion plasmas is investigate. The obtained results show that the growth rate of Weibel instability will be decreased about 40% with the anisotropy velocity as v_xe = 2v_ze = 20; the ion density ratio, b = n _{0i 1}/n _{0i 2}, and density gradient, are increasing 50 and 90% respectively. The ion streaming in density gradient of dense plasma leads to increasing the Weibel instability growth rate and its amplification through ion streaming in the large wavenumber. The maximum unstable wavenumber has been decreased with decreasing the ion beam density ratio. For fixed ion density ratio, increasing 90% of the density gradient in the near of fuel plasma corona leads to reducing growth rate and unstable wavenumber about 43 and 42% respectively.     

Merging of super-Alfvénic current filaments during collisionless Weibel instability of relativistic electron beams

The theoretical framework predicting the long-term evolution, structure, and coalescence energetics of current filaments during the Weibel instability of an electron beam in a collisionless plasma is developed. We emphasize the nonlinear stage of the instability, during which the beam density of filaments increases to the background ion density, and the ambient plasma electrons are fully expelled from the filaments. Our analytic and numerical results demonstrate that the beam filaments can carry super-Alfvénic currents and develop hollow-current density profiles. This explains why the initially increasing magnetic field energy eventually decreases during the late stage of the instability.     

Effects of Beam Energy Spread on the Weibel Instability in Fast Ignitor Scenarios

The effects of transverse temperature distribution on the Weibel instability in a laser produced plasma are studied analytically by using a three dimensional waterbag model. It is found that the purely transverse Weibel instability can be stabilized for the case in which the electron beam has a more symmetric transverse temperature distribution. This analytical expectation is supported by our two dimensional particle-in-cell simulations.     

Structure formation and tearing of an MeV cylindrical electron beam in a laser-produced plasma

The stability of a cylindrical, solid hot electron beam propagating in a high density plasma has been studied using a two-dimensional, hybrid Darwin code. The initially solid beam evolves into a hollow, annular beam due to the Weibel instability and generates strong magnetic fields on both sides of the annular ring. The annular structure subsequently breaks up into several beamlets via a mechanism similar to a tearing instability. It is found that the magnetic fields parallel to the direction of beam propagation also grow due to the tearing process.     

Interplay of collisions and temperature on the filamentary structures of a relativistic electron beam in plasmas

A systematic study on the Weibel instability induced filamentation of a relativistic electron beam is made by including the effects of collisions and temperature. The stabilization and de-stabilization of the beam filamentation due to beam temperature and plasma collisions, respectively, is explored through an analytical model and PIC simulations. The de-stabilization of the beam filamentation is attributed to the collision driven negative energy wave generation in the beam plasma system.     

Study of electron-beam propagation through preionized dense foam plasmas

The transport of an intense electron-beam produced by the Vulcan petawatt laser through dense plasmas has been studied by imaging with high resolution the optical emission due to electron transit through the rear side of coated foam targets. It is observed that the MeV-electron beam undergoes strong filamentation and the filaments organize themselves in a ringlike structure. This behavior has been modeled using particle-in-cell simulations of the laser-plasma interaction as well as of the transport of the electron beam through the preionized plasma. In the simulations the filamentary structures are reproduced and attributed to the Weibel instability.     

Characterization of the initial filamentation of a relativistic electron beam passing through a plasma

The linear instability that induces a relativistic electron beam passing through a plasma with return current to filament transversely is often related to some filamentation mode with the wave vector normal to the beam or confused with Weibel modes. We show that these modes may not be relevant in this matter and identify the most unstable mode on the two-stream or filamentation branch as the main trigger for filamentation. This sets both the characteristic transverse and longitudinal filamentation scales in the nonresistive initial stage.     

Three-dimensional magnetic structures generated by the development of the filamentation (Weibel) instability in the relativistic regime

We present three-dimensional, fully relativistic, fluid simulations of the dynamics of inhomogeneous counter streaming beams with the aim of understanding the magnetic structures that can be expected to form as a consequence of the development of the so-called Weibel instability. Ringlike structures in the transverse direction are generated as a consequence of the development of a spatially resonant mode. We describe the structures generated by beams of equal initial density and velocity and by a fast, less dense beam compensated by a slower, denser beam. We consider these two cases as schematic models of a laser produced beam propagating in a plasma with nearly equal density and in a plasma much denser than the injected beam.