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Record Id	65650
Title	Injection and transport properties of fast electrons in ultraintense laser-solid interactions
Contributors	M Coury, DC Carroll, APL Robinson (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), XH Yuan, CM Brenner (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), M Burza, RJ Gray, KL Lancaster (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), YT Li, XX Lin, DA MacLellan, H Powell, MN Quinn, O Tresca, C Wahlstro¨m, D Neely (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.), P McKenna (Cockcroft Inst., and Strathclyde Univ.)
Abstract	Fast electron injection and transport in solid foils irradiated by sub-picosecond-duration laser pulses with peak intensity equal to 4×1020 W/cm2 is investigated experimentally and via 3D simulations. The simulations are performed using a hybrid-particle-in-cell (PIC) code for a range of fast electron beam injection conditions, with and without inclusion of self-generated resistive magnetic fields. The resulting fast electron beam transport properties are used in rear-surface plasma expansion calculations to compare with measurements of proton acceleration, as a function of target thickness. An injection half-angle of ∼50°−70° is inferred, which is significantly larger than that derived from previous experiments under similar conditions.
Organisation	CLF , CLF-HPL , CI , STFC
Keywords	CLF 2013-2014
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Language	English (EN)

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Journal Article	Phys Plasmas 20, no. 4 (2013): 043104.	doi:10.1063/1.4799726		2013