Observation of collisionless shocks in laser-plasma experiments

L. Romagnani; S. V. Bulanov; M. Borghesi; P. Audebert; J. C. Gauthier; K. Löwenbrück; A. J. MacKinnon; P. Patel; G. Pretzler; T. Toncian; O. Willi

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.025004

Observation of collisionless shocks in laser-plasma experiments

L. Romagnani
, S. V. Bulanov
, M. Borghesi
, P. Audebert
, J. C. Gauthier
, K. Löwenbrück
, A. J. MacKinnon
, P. Patel
, G. Pretzler
, T. Toncian
, O. Willi

Queen's University of Belfast
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
School of Mathematics and Physics
Univ. Bordeaux
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Abstract

The propagation in a rarefied plasma (ne1015cm-3) of collisionless shock waves and ion-acoustic solitons, excited following the interaction of a long (τL∼470ps) and intense (I∼1015Wcm-2) laser pulse with solid targets, has been investigated via proton probing techniques. The shocks' structures and related electric field distributions were reconstructed with high spatial and temporal resolution. The experimental results were interpreted within the framework of the nonlinear wave description based on the Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation.

Original language	English
Article number	025004
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	101
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.025004
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2008

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