激光聚变冲击波点火的热斑形成机制

通过对冲击波点火内爆过程的数值模拟分析点火热斑压缩及形成机制。分析了传统中心点火的内爆过程,热斑主要经历冲击波压缩和惯性压缩过程,点火主要通过惯性压缩来实现。并仔细分析了冲击波点火的内爆压缩过程,从内爆角度来看冲击波点火并不是压缩和点火分开的两步过程,点火冲击波实际参与压缩过程,点火冲击波对热斑的直接影响很有限,热斑仍然主要通过壳层的惯性压缩实现点火。利用惯性压缩的定标关系及冲击波碰撞对壳层影响规律分析了热斑增压的物理机制,冲击波点火是通过点火冲击波与回冲击波的碰撞来提高壳层的密度,从而实现热斑压力的提升。     

激光聚变冲击波点火的热斑形成机制

通过对冲击波点火内爆过程的数值模拟分析点火热斑压缩及形成机制。分析了传统中心点火的内爆过程,热斑主要经历冲击波压缩和惯性压缩过程,点火主要通过惯性压缩来实现。并仔细分析了冲击波点火的内爆压缩过程,从内爆角度来看冲击波点火并不是压缩和点火分开的两步过程,点火冲击波实际参与压缩过程,点火冲击波对热斑的直接影响很有限,热斑仍然主要通过壳层的惯性压缩实现点火。利用惯性压缩的定标关系及冲击波碰撞对壳层影响规律分析了热斑增压的物理机制,冲击波点火是通过点火冲击波与回冲击波的碰撞来提高壳层的密度,从而实现热斑压力的提升。     

Optimal design of shock ignition target in order to stop generated hot electrons within the cold fuel

Generation of hot electrons (HEs) within ignitor pulse interaction with pre-compressed fuel is an important challenge in the shock ignition approach. Target optimization in order to prevent the destructive effects of HE is the main goal of the present work. In the first stage, the spectrum of electron energy generated during the interaction of ignitor pulse at different widths with the HiPER pre-compressed target has been estimated by applying particle simulation tool. Then, by changing the thickness of the cold fuel in the range of 185–225 μm, the corresponding areal densities are calculated using 1D hydrodynamic simulations. Finally, in order to assess the energy fusion yield, the iso-gain curves are obtained for different ignitor time windows as well as target thicknesses. Simulation results indicate that by decreasing the baseline, target thickness leads to a 17–70% increase in the fuel areal density. Subsequently, it has been demonstrated that by properly adjusting the parameters of ignitor pulse launch time and its width and employing a target with areal density high enough to stop the HEs, energy gain above 140 can be achieved. Optimal areas for shell thickness and ignitor time window are identified.     

Observation of atomic-number-dependent hot electrons due to the resonance absorption in laser plasmas

Various hot electron temperatures depending on atomic number were measured in laser plasmas produced by a YAG laser with energy 100 mJ and pulseduration 30 ps, as was reported in our previous paper. In the present work the absorbed laser energy was evaluated as a function of the angle of incidence for both p-polarized and s-polarized beams. For carbon plasmas, it was found that the absorbed energy depends on the angle of incidence and this effect was attributed to resonance absorption. For aluminum plasmas, the resonance absorption did not occur. These results confirmed that hot electrons shown in the X-ray continuum spectrum described in the previous paper were generated by resonance absorption.     

不同加热机制产生的超热电子的相干渡越辐射谐波研究

利用不同加热机制产生的超热电子所导致的相干渡越辐射(CTR)在谐波分量强度比上的不同，给出了区分飞秒激光等离子体相互作用产生超热电子过程中的主要与次要加热机制的一种可能方法.得到了加热周期不同的加热机制所产生超热电子的比例与CTR谐波分量的二倍频和一倍频的强度比之间的具体关系式.如果在实验上测到此谐波分量强度比，就可以推出不同加热机制在加热过程中所起作用的大致比例关系.另外，CTR谐波分量的强度比还与超热电子的温度、实验上所使用靶的厚度有一定依赖关系，对此作了较为详细的讨论. 关键词： 相干渡越辐射 超热电子 加热机制     

Turbulent heating of electrons and ions in a collisionless shock wave

Turbulent heating of a nonisothermal plasma by a collisionless shock wave is analysed in the situation when a small-scale high-frequency instability occurs at the wave front. Effective time of electron and ion heating is estimated.     

Phonon heating by hot electrons in n-InSb in quantizing magnetic fields

The effect of the phonon “narrow throat” was experimentally found in n-InSb in crossed electrical and quantizing magnetic fields at temperatures 1.6—4.2°K. The phenomenon of energy relaxation by hot electrons on phonons was detected with $\text{T}\text{S}\text{?}\text{h}\text{?}\text{λ}{}^{\mathrm{?1}}$ in the case of absence of a phonon thermal tank (S is sound velocity, λ is magnetic length, T is temperature). The value of a critical electric field (E_cr) on the S-type current-voltage characteristic (CVC) was measured as a function of temperature and the magnetic field.     

Analysis of experiments on energetic ions from laser produced plasmas with reference to hot electrons and pulsation

The need for highly charged heavy ions from projected particle accelerators has recently led to a re-evaluation of the complex processes of ion production in laser generated plasmas. Possible mechanisms for the production of intense beams of high charge state ions are investigated as is the experimental evidence for these mechanisms. The hypothesis that 20 keV ions are driven by hot electrons is not supported by experimental work to date. This work, on the other hand, suggests that 30ps pulsation is the basic mechanism for the acceleration of tantalum ions up to charge state 8+ whose energy increases linearly with charge state up to 24keV. For long pulses and charge states between 8+ and 18+, it appears that there is a secondary mechanism of electron impact ionisation by plasma electrons of approximately 200 eV in the plasma in front of the target, resulting in ions whose energy of around 24 keV is independent of charge state.     

快点火中相对论电子束能量沉积的动理学研究

针对相对论快电子束在高密度压缩芯区等离子体中的能量沉积过程开展物理建模、程序研制和数值模拟研究。从等离子体粒子碰撞的基本物理出发,综合考虑了高能电子与背景等离子体之间的短程两体碰撞过程和长程集体效应,建立了相对论Fokker-Planck动理学模型,通过采用球谐展开的方法,推导得到了适于数值求解的方程形式并根据方程特点开展相应的数值算法研究及程序研制并完成了物理考核,对快点火能量沉积的典型物理算例进行了模拟研究,并针对即将在神光Ⅱ升级装置上开展的快点火物理实验进行了初步的物理分析。     

快点火中相对论电子束能量沉积的动理学研究

针对相对论快电子束在高密度压缩芯区等离子体中的能量沉积过程开展物理建模、程序研制和数值模拟研究。从等离子体粒子碰撞的基本物理出发,综合考虑了高能电子与背景等离子体之间的短程两体碰撞过程和长程集体效应,建立了相对论Fokker-Planck动理学模型,通过采用球谐展开的方法,推导得到了适于数值求解的方程形式并根据方程特点开展相应的数值算法研究及程序研制并完成了物理考核,对快点火能量沉积的典型物理算例进行了模拟研究,并针对即将在神光Ⅱ升级装置上开展的快点火物理实验进行了初步的物理分析。     

Global simulation for laser-driven MeV electrons in fast ignition

A comprehensive examination of the interaction of a picosecond-long ignition pulse on high-density (40 times critical density) pellets using a two-dimensional particle-in-cell model is described. The global geometry consists of a 50 mum diameter pellet surrounded by a corona which is isolated by a vacuum region from the boundary. For cone-attached targets, as much as 67% of the incident laser energy is absorbed with 12% sent forward as fast electrons in a 23 degrees cone. The current filaments are driven by the Weibel instability of the forward-going fast electron flux and its return current with the ions playing an important role of neutralizing the space charge. No global current filament coalescence has been observed. The electron distribution function obeys a power law, which begins at E approximately 0.2 MeV and falls off as E-(2-3).     

Scattering of electrons due to screw dislocations

The phase dismatching effect on the scattering due to screw dislocations is reformulated to take the discreteness of lattice sites into account. Thet-matrix for an electron scattered from the statep top′ is $$\begin{gathered} t\left( {p,p'} \right) = ip_z T\exp \left\{ {i\left( {p - p'} \right) \cdot m_A } \right\}\exp \left\{ {i\left( {p - p'} \right) \cdot \left( {i + j} \right)/2} \right\} \hfill \\ \cdot \frac{{\left[ {\exp \left( { - ip_y } \right) - \exp \left( {ip'_y } \right)} \right] + \left( {\upsilon _y /\upsilon _x } \right)\left[ {\exp \left( {ip_x } \right) - \exp \left( { - ip'_x } \right)} \right]}}{{1 - \exp \left[ {i\left\{ {\left( {p_x - p'_x } \right) + \left( {\upsilon _y /\upsilon _x } \right)\left( {p_y - p'_y } \right)} \right\}} \right]}} \hfill \\ \end{gathered}$$ for 0≦v _y ≦v _x ≦1 and |p _y |, |p′ _y |?1. Here,v is the group velocity of the incident electron andm _A is the position of the dislocation axis. All vector notations represent vectors in two-dimensional space, the unit vectors of which are represented byi andj. Expressions for |p _y |, |p′ _y |?π and other values ofv are obtained through simple modifications. As an application, the resistivity due to screw dislocations is discussed qualitatively.     

Hall mobility of hot electrons in CdS

Photo-Hall effect of hot electrons in a pure single crystal of CdS was observed, for the first time. The measurement was carried out for electric fields up to 4,300 V/cm in magnetic fields up to 40 kOe at 4.2 K. The saturation of the drift velocity V_d of electrons due to optical phonon emission was observed. The saturated value of V_d is found to be about 1.7 × 10⁷ cm/sec.     

Line broadening by electrons in hot plasmas

By means of a quantum mechanical calculation, “electron strong collision constants” are given as functions of electron temperature and emitter principal and orbital quantum numbers.     

Intervalley diffusion of hot electrons in germanium

In many-valley semiconductors for certain specific orientations of the applied electric field E, the different drift velocities of electrons in different valleys should give rise to an additional diffusion called intervalley diffusion. Experimental evidence of this effect is presented. This was obtained by measuring the longitudinal diffusion coefficient of electrons in Ge, at 77 and 190 K, for E parallel to the 〈100〉 and 〈111〉 directions. The interpretation of the effect has been confirmed by Monte Carlo calculations.     

Hall effect of hot electrons in n-PbTe

Measurements of the Hall-coefficient were performed on n-PbTe at 80K in different crystallographic directions as a function of electric field up to 1.1kV/cm and magnetic fields up to 0.6T. The observed behaviour gives evidence for the presence of strong equivalent intervalley transfer. As the crystallographic orientation had no significant influence on the threshold and the appearance of an instability, equivalent intervalley scattering was excluded as a possible mechanism for this instability.     

Diffusion coefficient of hot electrons in GaAs

The longitudinal and transverse diffusion coefficient of hot electrons in GaAs at a lattice temperature of 300 K has been calculated by the Monte Carlo technique. The calculations showed that drift velocity and diffusion coefficient of hot electrons in GaAs can be fitted to available experimental data if the three-valley Γ-L-X model is used. The estimates of some parameter values of GaAs conduction band have been made.     

Nonlinear mirror modes in the presence of hot electrons

A non-perturbative calculation of the gyrotropic pressures associated with large-scale mirror modes is performed, taking into account a finite, possibly anisotropic electron temperature. In the small-amplitude limit, this leads to an extension of an asymptotic model previously derived for cold electrons. A model equation for the profile of subcritical finite-amplitude large-scale structures is also presented.