Exotic Dense-Matter States Pumped by a Relativistic Laser Plasma in the Radiation-Dominated Regime

J. Colgan; J. Abdallah, Jr.; A. Ya . Faenov; S. A. Pikuz; Erik Wagenaars; Nicola Booth; Ozgur Culfa; Rachel Jane Dance; Roger G. Evans; R. J. Gray; T. Kaempfer; Kate Lancaster; P. McKenna; Andrew Rossall; I. Yu. Skobelev; K.-S. Schulze; I. Uschmann; A. G.  zhidkov; Nigel Charles Woolsey

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.125001

Exotic Dense-Matter States Pumped by a Relativistic Laser Plasma in the Radiation-Dominated Regime

J. Colgan, J. Abdallah, Jr., A. Ya . Faenov, S. A. Pikuz, Erik Wagenaars, Nicola Booth, Ozgur Culfa, Rachel Jane Dance, Roger G. Evans, R. J. Gray, T. Kaempfer, Kate Lancaster, P. McKenna, Andrew Rossall, I. Yu. Skobelev, K.-S. Schulze, I. Uschmann, A. G. zhidkov, Nigel Charles Woolsey

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In high-spectral resolution experiments with the petawatt Vulcan laser, strong x-ray radiation of KK hollow atoms (atoms without n ¼ 1 electrons) from thin Al foils was observed at pulse intensities of 3x10^20 W/cm^2. The observations of spectra from these exotic states of matter are supported by detailed kinetics calculations, and are consistent with a picture in which an intense polychromatic x-ray ﬁeld, formed from Thomson scattering and bremsstrahlung in the electrostatic ﬁelds at the target surface, drives the KK hollow atom production. We estimate that this x-ray ﬁeld has an intensity of >5x10^18 W/cm^2 and is in the 3 keV range.

Original language	English
Article number	125001
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	110
Issue number	12
Early online date	18 Mar 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.125001
Publication status	Published - 22 Mar 2013

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Colgan, J., Abdallah, Jr., J., Faenov, A. Y. ., Pikuz, S. A., Wagenaars, E., Booth, N., Culfa, O., Dance, R. J., Evans, R. G., Gray, R. J., Kaempfer, T., Lancaster, K., McKenna, P., Rossall, A., Skobelev, I. Y., Schulze, K.-S., Uschmann, I., zhidkov, A. G., & Woolsey, N. C. (2013). Exotic Dense-Matter States Pumped by a Relativistic Laser Plasma in the Radiation-Dominated Regime. Physical Review Letters, 110(12), 1-5. Article 125001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.125001

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