Photon emission enhancement studies from the interaction of ultraintense laser pulses with shaped targets

Abstract

We study the photon emission by bremsstrahlung and nonlinear Compton scattering from interaction of ultra-intense laser pulses with cone target and flat foil using particle-in-cell simulations. The simulations are performed for laser pulses interacting with Al and Au targets. The strength of the two mechanisms of photon emission from bremsstrahlung and nonlinear Compton scattering are compared. When an ultra-intense (I>1022W/cm2) laser interacts with a cone and a foil target, photon emission by bremsstrahlung is found to be comparable to that from nonlinear Compton scattering. The obtained electron energy as well as the energy and number of photons emitted were found to be higher in case of cone shaped target compared with that of a foil target. The enhanced photon emission from cone shaped target is attributed to the guiding or collimation of hot electrons towards the cone tip from the self-generated magnetic field and electrostatic field along the cone surface which pushes the hot electrons towards the tip.

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Authors/Creators:

Chintalwad, S.
Krishnamurthy, S.
Ramakrishna, B.
Ridgers, C. P. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4078-0887

©2022 American Physical Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. Funding Information: We wish to acknowledge the epoch code used in this research which was developed by UK Engineering and Physics Sciences Research Council Grants No. EP/G054950/1, No. EP/G056803/1, No. EP/G055165/1 and No. EP/M022463/1. The authors also acknowledge funding from CSIR and Imprint Projects (IMP/2019/000275).

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