Chintalwad, S., Krishnamurthy, S., Ramakrishna, B. et al. (2 more authors) (2020) Investigation of QED Effects with Varying Z in Thin Foil Targets. IEEE transactions on plasma science. 9212612. pp. 573-577. ISSN 1939-9375
Abstract
Quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects in intense laser-plasma interaction were investigated using particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, specifically the generation of electron-positron pairs. Linearly polarized intense laser pulses were used to irradiate a thin foil (1-\mu \text{m} ) with an intensity of 4\times 10^{23} W cm-2. A scan of targets with varying Z (Al, Cu, and Au) is investigated to determine the effect of target Z /density on electron-positron pair production. The total number of pairs created for Al and Cu targets is 1014 and 1013, respectively. In the case of Au, we did not observe any pair production to occur. We have also calculated the variation in electron energy in these targets. The results indicate that target Z plays a very important role with the laser interaction in the pair production process, which will be explained in this article.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Funding Information: Manuscript received April 7, 2020; revised May 28, 2020, July 24, 2020, and September 16, 2020; accepted September 17, 2020. Date of publication October 5, 2020; date of current version March 10, 2021. This work was supported in part by the U.K. EPSRC under Grant EP/G054950/1, Grant EP/G056803/1, Grant EP/G055165/1, and Grant EP/ M022463/1. The review of this article was arranged by Senior Editor S. J. Gitomer. (Corresponding author: B. Ramakrishna.) S. Chintalwad, S. Krishnamurthy, and B. Ramakrishna are with the Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Telangana 502285, India (e-mail: bhuvan@phy.iith.ac.in). Publisher Copyright: © 1973-2012 IEEE. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. |
Keywords: | Electron-positron pair,laser-plasma interaction,particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation,quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > York Institute for Materials Research The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Physics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 15 Apr 2021 14:10 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 17:29 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2020.3026781 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/TPS.2020.3026781 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:173151 |
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