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O Culfa1,2, G J Tallents2, A K Rossall2, E Wagenaars2, C P Ridgers2, C D Murphy2, R J Dance2, R J Gray3, P McKenna3, C D R Brown4, S F James4, D J Hoarty4, N Booth5, A P L Robinson5, K L Lancaster2,5, S A Pikuz6, A Ya Faenov6,7, T Kampfer8, K S Schulze8, I Uschmann8, N C Woolsey2.
Abstract
An analysis of an electron spectrometer used to characterize fast electrons generated by ultraintense (10^{20}Wcm^{-2}) laser interaction with a preformed plasma of scale length measured by shadowgraphy is presented. The effects of fringing magnetic fields on the electron spectral measurements and the accuracy of density scale-length measurements are evaluated. 2D EPOCH PIC code simulations are found to be in agreement with measurements of the electron energy spectra showing that laser filamentation in plasma preformed by a prepulse is important with longer plasma scale lengths (>8 μm).Year: 2016 PMID： 27176413 DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.043201
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev E ISSN： 2470-0045 Impact factor: 2.529