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Title High energy electron transport in solids
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Abstract  With the addition of recent PW shots, the propagation of short-pulse laser generated electron beams have been studied using laser pulse energies from 30J to 300J, generating currents up to similar to 15MA in solid Al:Cu targets. This is similar to 5% of the current that will be required in an ignition pulse. To this level, the current appears to simply scale with laser power, the propagation spread not change at all. The resistance of the aluminum does not seem to play a role in the propagation characteristics, though it might in setting the current starting parameters. We do find that at the highest currents parts of these targets reach temperatures high enough to modify the Cu-K-alpha emission spectrum rendering our Bragg imaging mirrors ineffective; spectrometers will be needed to collect data at these higher temperatures
Organisation CCLRC , CLF , CLF-HPL , CLF-VULCAN
Keywords CLF 2006-2007
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Journal Article J Phys IV 133 (2006): 355-360. doi:10.1051/jp4:2006133072 2006