Guiding of relativistic electron beams in dense matter by laser-driven magnetostatic fields

M. Bailly-Grandvaux; J. J. Santos; C. Bellei; P. Forestier-Colleoni; S. Fujioka; L. Giuffrida; J. J. Honrubia; D. Batani; R. Bouillaud; M. Chevrot; Joseph E. Cross; R. Crowston; S. Dorard; Jean-Luc Dubois-Randé; M. Ehret; G. Gregori; S. Hulin; S. Kojima; E. Loyez; J. R. Marquès; A. Morace; Ph Nicolaï; M. Roth; S. Sakata; G. Schaumann; F. Serres; J. Servel; V. T. Tikhonchuk; N. Woolsey; Z. Zhang

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02641-7

Guiding of relativistic electron beams in dense matter by laser-driven magnetostatic fields

M. Bailly-Grandvaux, J. J. Santos^*, C. Bellei, P. Forestier-Colleoni, S. Fujioka, L. Giuffrida, J. J. Honrubia, D. Batani, R. Bouillaud, M. Chevrot, Joseph E. Cross, R. Crowston, S. Dorard, Jean-Luc Dubois-Randé, M. Ehret, G. Gregori, S. Hulin, S. Kojima, E. Loyez, J. R. MarquèsA. Morace, Ph Nicolaï, M. Roth, S. Sakata, G. Schaumann, F. Serres, J. Servel, V. T. Tikhonchuk, N. Woolsey, Z. Zhang

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Intense lasers interacting with dense targets accelerate relativistic electron beams, whichtransport part of the laser energy into the target depth. However, the overall laser-to-targetenergy coupling efficiency is impaired by the large divergence of the electron beam, intrinsicto the laser-plasma interaction. Here we demonstrate that an efficient guiding ofMeV electrons with about 30MA current in solid matter is obtained by imposing a laserdrivenlongitudinal magnetostatic field of 600 T. In the magnetized conditions the transportedenergy density and the peak background electron temperature at the 60-μm-thicktarget's rear surface rise by about a factor of five, as unfolded from benchmarked simulations.Such an improvement of energy-density flux through dense matter paves the ground foradvances in laser-driven intense sources of energetic particles and radiation, driving matter toextreme temperatures, reaching states relevant for planetary or stellar science as yet inaccessibleat the laboratory scale and achieving high-gain laser-driven thermonuclear fusion.

Original language	English
Article number	102
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02641-7
Publication status	Published - 9 Jan 2018

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Bailly-Grandvaux, M., Santos, J. J., Bellei, C., Forestier-Colleoni, P., Fujioka, S., Giuffrida, L., Honrubia, J. J., Batani, D., Bouillaud, R., Chevrot, M., Cross, J. E., Crowston, R., Dorard, S., Dubois-Randé, J.-L., Ehret, M., Gregori, G., Hulin, S., Kojima, S., Loyez, E., ... Zhang, Z. (2018). Guiding of relativistic electron beams in dense matter by laser-driven magnetostatic fields. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02641-7

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