强激光在窄通道中传播的理论研究

在考虑相对论和有质动力非线性以及全局电量守衡的前提下,分析了强激光在冷等离子体窄通道中稳定传播的情况。采用较为简化的二维理论模型,给出了描述激光和通道横向结构的解,对不同通道宽度、通道密度、激光强度和电磁模式等进行了讨论,分析了其对激光在等离子体通道中传播的影响。分析发现,在存在预通道的情况下,当等离子体通道的密度大于临界密度很多时(例如20倍临界密度),即使是在激光波长量级的通道中,激光仍然可以传播。通道越宽,等离子体密度越小;激光强度越大越容易传播。在同样的通道和传输情况下,TE0模传输所需要的激光强度比TE1模要小。     

The propagation and deposition of fast muons in dense DT mixture

The propagation of the fast muon population mainly due to collisional effect in a dense deuterium--tritium (DT for short) mixture is investigated and analysed within the framework of the relativistic Fokker--Planck equation. Without the approximation that the muons propagate straightly in the DT mixture, the muon penetration length, the straggling length, and the mean transverse dispersion radius are calculated for different initial energies, and especially for different densities of the densely compressed DT mixture in our suggested muon-driven fast ignition (FI). Unlike laser-driven FI requiring super-high temperature, muons can catalyze DT fusion at lower temperatures and may generate an ignition sparkle before the self-heating fusion follows. Our calculation is important for the feasibility and the experimental study of muon-driven FI.     

高能离子在稠密等离子体中的传输和能量沉积

用相对论福克-普朗克方程对高能离子在稠密氘氚等离子体中的碰撞动力学进行了研究，用球谐函数来展开方程的解：格林函数，然后简明地求出了不同能量质子和α粒子在等离子体中的停止时间、减速距离、纵向弥散距离和横向偏转距离.与以前研究离子在等离子体中运动的方法相比，没有假设高能离子在等离子体中损失能量远远小于入射离子能量，求解了纵向弥散距离；并且可以求解横向偏转距离.这些计算对实验上用高能离子加热冷的稠密等离子体，然后进行科学研究具有指导作用，并且可以用来研究快点火的可能性. 关键词： 高能离子 福克-普朗克方程     

Proton Acceleration with Nano-Scale Micro-Structured Target by Circularly Polarized Laser Pulse

Two dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are taken to study the interaction of a circularly polarized laser pulse with a nano-scale micro-structured target. The protons which are doped in the rear side of the target experience the electrostatic fields caused by both the radiation pressure driven shock and the target normal sheath at the rear side of the target. A quasimonoenergetic proton bunch with central energy of about 11MeV and energy spread of ＆#8710; ε/ε about 0.18 is achieved by using a 3.45×1019 W/cm2, 66fs laser pulse. A comparison with the case of linearly polarized laser pulse and the same target condition is considered.     

Energetic-ion generation by the combination of laser pressure and Coulomb explosion

A scheme of generating energetic ions by the interaction of an ultrahigh-intensity laser pulse and a thin solid foil is studied. The combination of the effects of radiation pressure and Coulomb explosion makes the ion acceleration more effective. The maximum ion velocity variation with time is predicted theoretically while the temporal evolution of the electrostatic field due to the Coulomb explosion is taken into consideration. Two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are done to verify the theory.