Fast Ions from Laser Plasmas: Analytic Solution and Scaling Laws.

Abstract

New analytic solutions describe ambipolar acceleration of fast ions from a steep, localized density gradient with a high electron temperature. A scaling law and estimates for the peak energy of ion species are presented. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA047399

Entities

People

  • F. S. Felber
  • R. Decoste

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Equations
  • Gas Dynamics
  • Geometry
  • High Energy
  • Ion Density
  • Ions
  • Laser Pulses
  • Laser Targets
  • Military Research
  • Plane Geometry
  • Pressure Gradients
  • Scaling Laws
  • Thermal Conductivity

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics